Why You Must Display Caution When Using YouTube
Are you a high school student who enjoys using YouTube?
You might not only enjoy watching videos on YouTube, but you
may also like to make and share your own videos. Even if you
are in high school, you can do so with YouTube, as YouTube
allows those thirteen and older to share their videos.
While this can be fun to do, you need to display some caution
when making your YouTube videos.
Display caution when making your YouTube videos?
If you are wondering why you need to do so, aside from the
obvious safety concerns, you might be wondering why all the worry.
What you may not realize is that your online content, including your
YouTube videos, may be watched by those who are associated
with your school.
Those views may come from your friends, other classmates, or even
school officials. That is why it is extremely important that you
thoroughly examine your YouTube video content and make sure
that no harm can come to you later on.
When it comes to YouTube video content that you should avoid,
particularly if you are a high school student, the most obvious
is illegal activities.
You do not want to have video of yourself or your friends drinking
underage, doing drugs, or committing another crime, no matter how
minor it may seem. As it was previously mentioned, you never really
know who will come across your videos.
With the way that high schools and gossip works today, if one of your
classmates found a video of yours on YouTube it is likely that they
wouldn’t keep that video to themselves; they will almost always
share it with others that they know.
Another type of video content that you may want to avoid is content
that is offensive to other students at your school. This type of
content most commonly comes up in video blogs. Many internet
users use video blogs to vent their frustrations or talk about
their day. If you are a high school student, there is a good chance
that you may want to discuss school, your friends, or your classmates.
While this is more than possible to do, you will want to refrain from
sounding too negative or even threatening. Although you may just
be joking, “I’m so mad I could kill her,” could be taken out of context
by someone viewing your YouTube video, whether it is a video blog or not.
As it was previously mentioned, one of the many individuals who could
end up viewing your YouTube videos are your classmates or even
school officials. While we would all like to believe that our classmates
are cool, not all of them are.
Should one of your classmates find a video on YouTube that they found
offensive or poor in taste, they may report it to your school. Speaking
of your school, your school officials may even come across your
YouTube videos, as many schools are now using the internet, namely
social networking sites, to monitor their students and their activities.
Having illegal activities documented in your YouTube videos could
spell trouble for you, in more ways than one.
When it comes to YouTube videos with illegal activities or threats
documented in them, the consequences that you suffer, if any, will all
depend on the school district in question. It is not uncommon for school
districts to suspend students that they find doing illegal activities,
even if those activities were not committed on school properties.
Should you participate in extra circular activities, including sports,
you have find yourself suspended from all sports teams or other
school sponsored organizations, temporarily or even permanently.
In serious situations, like where threats against other students have
been documented, it is not uncommon for the authorities to be contacted.
As you can see, there are serious consequences to not thinking before
making and sharing your videos on YouTube. All high school students,
including you, are urged to think about your future, before using YouTube
as a source of fun entertainment.
You might not only enjoy watching videos on YouTube, but you
may also like to make and share your own videos. Even if you
are in high school, you can do so with YouTube, as YouTube
allows those thirteen and older to share their videos.
While this can be fun to do, you need to display some caution
when making your YouTube videos.
Display caution when making your YouTube videos?
If you are wondering why you need to do so, aside from the
obvious safety concerns, you might be wondering why all the worry.
What you may not realize is that your online content, including your
YouTube videos, may be watched by those who are associated
with your school.
Those views may come from your friends, other classmates, or even
school officials. That is why it is extremely important that you
thoroughly examine your YouTube video content and make sure
that no harm can come to you later on.
When it comes to YouTube video content that you should avoid,
particularly if you are a high school student, the most obvious
is illegal activities.
You do not want to have video of yourself or your friends drinking
underage, doing drugs, or committing another crime, no matter how
minor it may seem. As it was previously mentioned, you never really
know who will come across your videos.
With the way that high schools and gossip works today, if one of your
classmates found a video of yours on YouTube it is likely that they
wouldn’t keep that video to themselves; they will almost always
share it with others that they know.
Another type of video content that you may want to avoid is content
that is offensive to other students at your school. This type of
content most commonly comes up in video blogs. Many internet
users use video blogs to vent their frustrations or talk about
their day. If you are a high school student, there is a good chance
that you may want to discuss school, your friends, or your classmates.
While this is more than possible to do, you will want to refrain from
sounding too negative or even threatening. Although you may just
be joking, “I’m so mad I could kill her,” could be taken out of context
by someone viewing your YouTube video, whether it is a video blog or not.
As it was previously mentioned, one of the many individuals who could
end up viewing your YouTube videos are your classmates or even
school officials. While we would all like to believe that our classmates
are cool, not all of them are.
Should one of your classmates find a video on YouTube that they found
offensive or poor in taste, they may report it to your school. Speaking
of your school, your school officials may even come across your
YouTube videos, as many schools are now using the internet, namely
social networking sites, to monitor their students and their activities.
Having illegal activities documented in your YouTube videos could
spell trouble for you, in more ways than one.
When it comes to YouTube videos with illegal activities or threats
documented in them, the consequences that you suffer, if any, will all
depend on the school district in question. It is not uncommon for school
districts to suspend students that they find doing illegal activities,
even if those activities were not committed on school properties.
Should you participate in extra circular activities, including sports,
you have find yourself suspended from all sports teams or other
school sponsored organizations, temporarily or even permanently.
In serious situations, like where threats against other students have
been documented, it is not uncommon for the authorities to be contacted.
As you can see, there are serious consequences to not thinking before
making and sharing your videos on YouTube. All high school students,
including you, are urged to think about your future, before using YouTube
as a source of fun entertainment.
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