YouTube: Users revolting against social media sites
Posted by Allie Judson on November 16, 2006 at 3:28 PM
More trials and tribulations for the burgeoning field of social media: the video community website YouTube has come under-fire by some of the users that helped get it off the ground in the beginning. Following the recent $1.65 billion deal with Google and the other business arrangements with NBC, CBS, SonySBMG, and others, users of the site started posting videos of disapproval of the website’s cooperate direction.
"What's happening to YouTube is kind of like the analogy about the revolutionaries who have come to change government, and then the politicians take over," Mitch Oscar, executive vice president of Carat Digital said. "The corporations are taking the wildness out of the party."
Though YouTube promises that the new deals will not change the websites or it’s connections with the user community, patrons don’t seem to be buying it. However after watching billons of dollars in content deals others are just asking, where their share of the money is.
YouTube’s revolt of users mirrors problems that have been seen on social networking sites MySpace and Facebook. Since MySpace became more commercial by teaming up with Google earlier this year, users were left angry and disgruntled. Like site, Facebook, saw red in their users eyes when the site was reworked and opened to the public earlier this fall. Users protested in a series of ways including pulling membership, posting complaints, and starting petitions.
Ironically in related news, YouTube has sent the technologically oriented blogging site TechCrunch a “cease and desist” order for their post and Internet gadget made by allowing users to download YouTube videos on to their computers. Related downloading tools are available to users on tons of websites including iTube, Pod Tube, and Firefox Extension.
Source:New York Post, TechCrunch
Though YouTube promises that the new deals will not change the websites or it’s connections with the user community, patrons don’t seem to be buying it. However after watching billons of dollars in content deals others are just asking, where their share of the money is.
YouTube’s revolt of users mirrors problems that have been seen on social networking sites MySpace and Facebook. Since MySpace became more commercial by teaming up with Google earlier this year, users were left angry and disgruntled. Like site, Facebook, saw red in their users eyes when the site was reworked and opened to the public earlier this fall. Users protested in a series of ways including pulling membership, posting complaints, and starting petitions.
Ironically in related news, YouTube has sent the technologically oriented blogging site TechCrunch a “cease and desist” order for their post and Internet gadget made by allowing users to download YouTube videos on to their computers. Related downloading tools are available to users on tons of websites including iTube, Pod Tube, and Firefox Extension.
Source:New York Post, TechCrunch
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