Youtube's Influence on Netizen

Youtube is one of the most popular website which contains lots of videos from around the world. Based on research, its the second most popular website in the world, Alexa rank's version. So, Youtube is most probably on the top 10 most popular website in Indonesia, which means, there are lots of people in Indonesia who are watching Youtube, including the young ones. Because Youtube has lots of videos from around the world and the viewers aren't exclusively the adults, of course that means it has positive and negarive impacts from it.

Starting from the positive ones, we can use Youtube as a media to learn lots of things besides material's to increase our knowledge. Not only that, it can also become a media to express one's creativity. And last but not least, Youtube can also become the source of mptivation and inspiration for the viewers, especially the students.

Even though it has so many positive impacts, Youtube also has some negative impacts if you don't use it wisely. For example, we can't manage our study time beacuse of Youtube. And then, it's also possible for the viewers whos age haven't reach the age of 18 to watch something they shouldn't have watched, because initially, internet was meant for a person who has become an adult (age 18 or so). The third one is, it's most likely for a student viewers to get affected by some negative comments or content from a fellow youtuber, because some of the popular gaming youtube channels are using some bad words when they play certain games, and that's most likely to be imitated by the viewers who idolize them, without knowing how bad the words actually are.

To sum it up, it's actually come back to us. How can we make Youtube as something that can make ourselves a better person through the things around and inside it, and how well can we distance ourselves from the negative ones. That's why a parents guidance and participation are needed to make sure their child will only get the positive impacts from Youtube and prevent them to get the negative ones.