YouTube one of the most useful apps we have as seniors!

fuzzybuddy said:
I had a 30 year old washing machine, but it wouldn't work because the lid switch wore out. Nobody stocks 30 year old washing machine parts. A guy on YouTube showed me a work around-it lasted another two years.
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I like that sort of thing. It is there when you need it. When I need help with my graphics program someone always steps forward on YouTube.
 

I love youtube for learning painting, drawing, paper quilling, quilting, sewing, crochet, anything! Also if we don't know how to fix something or how something works at home, we look it up on YT. And to find out anything on traveling to anywhere, youtube is so wonderful and so many people do reviews on everywhere and anything. Also I have gotten into ASMR
autonomous sensory meridian response

ASMR stands for autonomous sensory meridian response; a term used to describe a tingling, static-like, or goosebumps sensation in response to specific triggering audio or visual stimuli.

My favourite channel is Moonlight Cottage ASMR with sweet Diane. Highly, highly recommend her channel.
 

I watch The History Guy every morning with breakfast if he has a new video. He does 4-5 days a week and sometimes an audio podcast. Been using You Tube for information on many subjects for several years. Car repair, computer repair, and info on my solar panels and solar batteries. Getting frustrated a little with their commercials. I will not pay $14. a month to end the commercials. I pay for Apple TV and that is only $10.
 
I like YouTube very much and I watch it daily. I enjoy a variety of channels on there: Travel, animals, exercise, health, diet, and news mainly.
My husband uses it for fixing things, computer problems, living off the grid videos, and farming videos.
 
This young man did not take over his father's business. When he was much younger, his father wanted him to work for the postal service as a life time career. Andrew did deliver mail for eight years.
I watch his videos, as millions of others do, which inspires me to get things DONE!!!! I do not have any vehicle knowledge..its just his energy!!

Love his shipping container Castle!!!!

Put his name in the search~. Andrew Camarata


 
Colleen said:
Love Youtube! I subscribe to several quilting channels and whenever my late hubby needed info on anything, that's the first place we'd look. Hope they don't start charging for it.
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Google is working on that.

It's a shame but they want to create a tier system where you'll get free access to useless crap and maybe kid's channels, but pay a high premium for quality entertainment videos, and get educational videos, self-help, medical, crafts, world news, etc. at various pay levels.

This would probly eliminate ads, but the downside would be that only YouTube creators whose videos qualify for a tier would be able to earn money. A lot of creators are already leaving YouTube. Hopefully, Google is realizing they could be shooting themselves in the foot.
 
Happyflowerlady said:
Absolutely ! Youtube is my go-to place to learn about anything. Before i order something from Amazon that i have not used before, I look it up on youtube and see what people there think about it, and what kind they recommend.
Amazingly, just yesterday, I looked up the founders of our health insurance company (Devoted) to learn more about that company, and there was even good information about the company and also the two brothers who started it because they wanted the kind of care that they would want for their own family.

I also listen to several doctors on there, watch sales videos for gaited horses, and just relax watching YoYo Jr, the famous monkey, and his family of other animals.
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Our daughter and her family are living most of each year in Hawaii. Even though we go see them as often as we can, as we are getting older the trip is becoming more and more difficult. YouTube has offered us a new time of sharing with them. The children go to a very nice and forward thinking school in Waimea. It has allowed us to watch their sporting events, a play that one of them was in, and now as their son is about to graduate we have been able to watch some of his senior projects, and activities. It's not the same as being there, but it makes us feel a little closer.
 
I completely agree with using youtube for family connection also, @TennVet . My oldest son has a youtube channel, and he would post videos of his trips into the hills on his motorcycle rides, or hiking back into a high mountain lake with my two grandsons. I subscribe to his channel, so I see all of his new videos right away. I wish more of my family did that !

We also use Facetime for family times. When my youngest son got married a few years back, we watched the wedding on our television by air playing it from my iPad onto the TV, and it was great . He also enjoys gardening, so we take visits together of our yard and garden via facetime in the summer, as well as we have a family-sharing photo group, where all of us that garden share pictures of our flowers and berries.

Technology has taken away some of the things we used to do (like all those Christmas cards and letters every year), but it has added in some really good things like being able to see family that lives hundreds/thousands of miles away, that was impossible to do until the SMART technology made them possible.
 
I have found YouTube to be OK when learning how to do something, but HOLY ****, people DO NOT know how to make good videos or teach!!

It drives me crazy. Have to sit through, IDK, 10 minutes of promoters telling you all about their silly lives, why they made the video, how they bought the house two years ago and their MIL is sick and then the wife got preggars and then they lost their job so they decided to create content - PLEASE FOLLOW MY CHANNEL ----AHHHHH!

Just TEACH ME how to fix this thing.

So, the production value of so many of the videos just sucks and there are people there teaching who don't know jack about teaching. They know how to ramble, and they might be narcissists, but they are not good teachers, most of them.

Then, just as you have reached the instruction part of the video, you get a commercial interruption. Ahhhh!

As for posting stuff on YouTube, I always tell people to use Vimeo instead. Join up, pay the money, and in exchange for the payment you will get real life support when you have a problem. YouTube only offers support to its most successful posters. Or at least that's how it was before. I doubt they have changed that policy.

I was also very alarmed several years ago when I saw little kids, like under age 10, or pre-teens, posting stuff on YouTube - sad videos they made in their rooms usually, they'd get 2 or 3 views, and yet, kids are not supposed to be able to do that. So, YouTube lacks a moral compass, just like so many other SM companies.

In terms of learning, I have found that YouTube has many weeds of BLATHER you have to fight through to get to the actually useful content.

And I never go there to watch entertainment stuff. Once again I'm faced with the problem of finding the good and well-produced content vs. the amateurish or just stupid stunt content.

The place needs an index page or channel guide or something.
 
I do pay for YouTube Premium. The main reason is because I now prefer the YouTube music app over Spotify and that comes with the YouTube Premium subscription. Watching the videos on YouTube without ads is a nice bonus.

One of the content creators for a channel I subscribe to (Cord Cutters) did mention a month ago that Google does plan to put more (or longer) ads in videos over a certain length. I'm sure one reason is to try to get more people to subscribe. But they also changed their monetization methods for creators which opened up opportunities for creators who have lower subscription numbers to get paid.

One of YouTube's main competitor is Twitch (owned by Amazon) but Twitch has become a cesspool and many from Twitch are moving over to YouTube.


I did watch a very good documentary yesterday about the cultural changes during 1967 yesterday. It covered the normal things most documentaries cover during that time but it was well done. One thing I found interesting from the video is that the parents in the UK did not freak out as much about the fashion and hair changes that was going on with their kids as much as the parents in the US did. They just accepted it as kids being kids. I'd be interested to know if that is really true.

 
I use yt a lot. Usually when I have a fixit type problem. It has saved my bacon many times. I do not feel much like hiring an appliance repair person to fix a refrigerator I probably payed 500 for max. So you tube university here i goā€¦.
 
We needed help with finding out how to use the auto-cruise control on a 2005 VW Passat, THAT WE JUST BOUGHT YESTERDAY!!!! :)

thumbnail.jpg Our Toyota Corolla is on it's last legs.

So Misa went to get groceries and I started asking my phone how to work the cruse control on the car. Sure enough it found a Youtube video, already primed to just show the part of the video that instructs on how to use this particular feature!! It played for about 10 seconds and I learned how to turn it off and on and control it from the steering wheel. Pretty cool.
 

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