YouTube Junkie

YouTube never made much sense to me.  Why would anyone want to watch a bunch of people they did not know do random stuff.  Then one day I tried it out.  Had to see what the fuss was all about.  People I knew were raving about the thing.   One boring night, I logged onto the Internet and pulled up YouTube.

Once on the site, I created an account and immediately became lost.  What they suggested was too thrilling.  Ah, there was that wonderful search box.   What did I want to see.  Boston Terriers of course!   RoseBud was my precious little girl.  The rest was history.   One video let to another and another and another……  You get the picture. The more I watched the more I wanted to see.   It was a taunting bag of Lays potato chips.  Bet you can’t watch one!  I had to locate the videos on Dachshunds.  Lo and behold,  Little Dog has come across his craziness honestly!  Stubborn as the day is long, silly as the Mad Hatter and faithful to the end of time.

Soon I  discovered Sylvester the Talking Kitty.  My stomach hurt so much from laughing at the silly kitty.  He was hilarious and has quite the potty mouth.   To the right of each video was a whole list of videos.  Some were on the same topic but others of a  different genre.  This is how I began to find extremely interesting, funny, and informative people.  Some were traveling all over the United States visiting strange and of the beaten path places.   Locations I had never heard and probably would have never heard of had they not told me.   The places were amazing though.  Did you know there was a Land of Oz (yes the yellow brick road land) in the mountains of NC?  They were visiting filming locations and matched up each site from the actual film footage to present day shots.  Then the Disneyland frequenters.  Awesome.  Having only been to Disney World once, seeing the west coast Disneyland was so exciting.  I thank Adam the Woo, Justin Scarred and The Carpetbagger for this.

Vlogger (video bloggers) are worldwide.  They share what it’s like to live and work in a foreign country, i.e. Japan with Yukendoit.  You can see what it is like to live in Sweden and run a farm and logging business on the Swedish Homstead.  Tour Canada and the United States with truckers Jade and Jon or Trucker Josh.   Probably any other occupation you can think of  could find on YouTube.   How cool this must be if a young person was thinking of going into a certain profession, they could go and check some of this stuff out.  Hear first hand what it is like.

The best yet was finding some of the helpful crochet teaching videos and craft painting videos.  Everything I do has been self taught through trial and error or books.  What a gift it is to see it in action with such visual and verbal help.  The Crochet Crowd is fantastic for crochet.  The fella’s name is Mikey and let me tell you I am envious of that mans talent!   The wonderful lady, on My Serenity Crafts, has amazing talent.  Her instructions are excellent.  I love the fact I can start and stop the video as I work along with them.  Technology is incredible!

Lately, I have been watching a lot about metal detecting and magnet fishing.  That just looks like some good fun.  Great for learning history, as well, finding relics and coins.  That is on my bucket list for future fun and learning.

I have not even scratched the surface of all the things one can learn on YouTube.  There is comedy, movies, documentaries (I am particularly fond of the British Monarchy shows), on and on.  Even household repairs or lawn and yard information.  It is a living encyclopedia.    And yes, there is the portion of garbage on YouTube as on the entire Internet.  Get real people…don’t click on it.  There is too much good stuff to take advantage of.  There are lots of newcomers as well, i.e. Everyday Jordan and Mr Congeniality.  So much fun is to be had!  Go check them out.

“One idea lights a thousand candles.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

YouTube lit my candles!