YouTube—So Easy to Use, So Difficult to Realize That

It’s funny. I hear a lot about YouTube having tons of video clips and see that a lot of friends use it on MySpace and Facebook, but I’ve never really looked around the site before. And when I got on YouTube, I nearly turned around and left. Was this yet another profile to create? Then I looked closer. I only needed to create a profile if I wanted to upload stuff or leave comments. I was saved.

It was easy enough to find videos for particular topics. The hard part was figuring out which video clips are worth watching, since there was usually a lot of results. Adding to the difficulty was the unintuitive steps needed to post a YouTube clip to my blog. Ugh.

Wading through the results can be time consuming, since I wanted to stop and look at so many of them. Some of the videos I found had problems with freezing for moments before resuming. I decided to look for Lion or Dragon Dances, since Chinese New Year is on my mind. It’s funny that a lot of the videos/performers use the folk song "On the General’s Order", used as the theme song for some of the Wong Fei Hung movies.

I checked out the Google Videos and Yahoo Videos. I was amused to find that most of the results in Google and Yahoo were from YouTube! Other than that, I wasn’t too impressed with either of them. If their videos are coming from YouTube, I might as well go to the source for my searches.



And this one had the folk song. I was amazed by how much effort it takes to learn to perform the Lion Dances.