Sunday 8 December 2013

Keep what's on youtube, on youtube.

This might sound like an odd thing to say, and depending on where this is posted, it probably is an odd and random thing to say.

However, over the past few years, facebook has seen a surge in content (video's) being posted on pages, which have clearly been downloaded from youtube and then uploaded to facebook. While many people might be happy with this because it makes sharing more easy and the people who post the content on their facebook pages happy, because their stats look great, theres several thing's to remember here....

1) Youtube content is made by people, for people. It's not made to be downloaded and uploaded elsewhere without the content poster's permission in writing (that latter bit is from a legal point of view).

2) Adsense adverts appear on most youtube video's these days, and while not many people know how or why, it does prove to be an income for some people to even live off. Taking their content and placing it elsewhere, where adsense is not active, might well be great for a facebook page, but it does take a large amount of income away from the person.

On the adsense point there, don't think facebook won't start showing adverts on their video's... they're looking into it.

3) Posters on facebook need to look at other pages and see what they're posting. Often, people will like more than one page in a certain catagory, take "Vine's" for example. When you search vine on facebook, you will find ALOT of pages there, where people post their fave video's. That's fine... only, it's the same content on each page... so why not shake it up a little, people do get bored of watching the same old stuff.

Most important to notice here is facebook's agreement with the big music companies and content creator's, the more content that is taken off other website's and posted on facebook, the more they get involved... trust me, they can ruin website's if they fully enforce their ways on it.

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