Social media makes ordinary people extraordinary and talented personalities to be world-known celebrities. This is very logical due to the heavy load of information and sharing effects of social media networks. The social media atmosphere provides every person connected on the gateway with blast of diversified data in just a click. There’s no crime with such activity because the internet is purposed to provide unlimited information for the searcher though without specific restrictions for the usage of such data.

What’s terrifically devastating is when brainy yet foxy persons alter, revise, taints such information and distributes on the web. And not only distribute but bomb such despicable information on famous search engines on the web.

Let’s take for an example, the sixteen year old Youtube discovered, Justin Bieber. For many not oriented with the web, his just a teen making millions, singing famous songs and affiliated with some foundations but assuming that almost 80 percent of globe is connected to the internet, you would now think of the syphilis issue or the communist country concert tour or bad enough –the Justin Bieber car accident.

These issues are not brought by the show business industry but originated from a social media network, particularly 4chan –an English-language imageboard website. According to reports the heinous cyber prank group hacked Youtube by injecting their own code which displayed that Bieber in a car accident.

The syphilis issue was also kindled by 4chan. It was born on the picture of Justin Bieber and with Kim Kardashian seen with nipples out. 4chan users then published the image unto their site which and heavily bombed it on Google making it number one on the hot search for a time.

The last issue yet the most hard to believe is the Justin Bieber’s World Tour on the communist state of North Korea. This was also mastermind by 4chan by penetrating Bieber’s world tour contest site. The site decides on which country Bieber will visit by online votes. Unexpectedly before the contest closes, North Korea topped on the votes. North Korea which is restricted on use of internet astonished millions on becoming the next world visit for the teen star.

This concludes social media as a dangerous weapon for mischievous citizens on the web. There will be more and more of them as generations come and the only defense the target can employ is to disconnect himself online which also means isolation from the rest of the society.

The World Wide Web was born in 1995 and two years later, news websites followed suit. But it was not until the mid-2000s that social media sites such as MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Digg and a dozen others were the trend. These social media sites are not just source of get-togetherness and hangout pit stops but they are also one’s virtual connection to just about anything under the sun. Think of the tremendous application social media offer.

1. Source of News – In the past, we only regard sites such as CNN.com and usatoday.com as our source of online news. With social media sites such as twitter, we can now get our news all in one page. Just subscribe online news sites and link it to your twitter page and voila! You can have updates every time you click on your twitter page from all of these news sites that you had bookmarked.

2. Doing Business Online – Before 2005, business models were highly traditional. Then came Amazon.com, whose business pattern is imitated by hundreds of online business sites. Then came social media as a platform for businessmen. Simple yet cost-effective. If you don’t have that much capital, all you need to do is link your business site to other websites. You may employ various online methods too to promote your business site. What’s even better is that if you don’t want to buy your own domain, then you may use your blogger or Multiply account as a platform of your business on the Web.

3. Meeting Friends - It’s really a pleasure to meet new friends online, learn and chat with them. But the best and safer way to gain lots of friends online is through social media groups in which you can have access to their real profile. This is practically a group for everyone like for example Facebook; there is a group category for Catholics, Hippies, Russians, Naturist and even UFO existence theorist.

What’s your favorite Social Media site? It depends of what kind of person you are. If you like watching shared videos then I recommend Youtube.com is the right Social Media site for you. You can watch movie clips, product demos, business tips, funny advert or prank clips (one of my favorite theme in watching) and even funny events in the Hollywood sphere. Click here for more categorized videos

Like what happened in the Video Music Awards of 2009, it was totally a stage prank. When Taylor Swift won the best female video awards and she was in the middle of thanking her fans and amazingly surprise about the awards, suddenly Kayne West grab the microphone from her and start taking “Yo Taylor, I’m, I, really happy for you, I let you finish BUT Beyonce had the one best video of all time” and end up with Whatever-gesture.

I really like the reaction of Taylor Swift, she was just standing and sympathazing the crowd to cheer for her and it worked. Beyonce Knowles won the best video of the year, Kayne West maybe then the best speculator but at the wrong time.

Guess what? Social Media sphere really helps celebrities in promotion, as Taylor thanking her followers in Twitter and Myspace for her last message.

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YouTube announces that all creators of video who gained lots of viewers specially those who make some educational, hints, ideas and walkthrough will have a chance to gain money. This focused on users who regularly upload some videos that receive lots of viewers. YouTube product manager Shenaz Zack announced that “they may invite users who gained many viewers to monetize that video and start earning revenue from it “. If youtube have chosen the user’s video they will have a chance to earn revenue from it by the help of YouTube they will sell advertising through the used of the video and owners will be paid by Revenue Sharing. By the help of this opportunity provided by YouTube, users around United States will have the chance to gain additional income and hopefully soon it will be open around the world.

Social media can be an amazing instrument for your business, giving you with more client insight, direct interaction channels and the aptitude to gauge the efficacy of these discussions very closely.

Here are some steps of developing social media plan for your business:

1. Listen. Listen to any byword either from the Internet or word of mouth. In any endeavor, whether business-related or not, the key to innovation is always listening. It’s like eavesdropping. As you listen to various ideas, you can modify those ideas into one big concept and create your own. Evolutionizing an idea is one step closer to success. To assist you in listening and scouting for better keywords in your online business, you may use Social Media Firehose, Latest Blog Mentions Pipe and Alltop.

2. Prepare. There are three substeps to prepare for optimizing your online business. The first substep is to find the proper people who have the best skills to optimize your online business. The second substep is to set the rules in optimizing your site whether in chat or forum threads. There are templates on this available online. The most reliable of them all is Channel 9 Doctrine built by Microsoft. The third substep in preparing the optimization of your online business is to define your strategy. Multiple strategies disseminated at the same time is always the best – whether chat, forum thread, comments posting, linking of your online business and establishing a couple of blogs to co-exist with your main site.

3. Engage. This is the actual action of optimizing your online business. Aside from chats and forum threads, there are several ingenious ways in promoting your site like establishing your own YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, LiveJournal or Plurk accounts. If you do these for fun, why not do these for your business?

Conclusion:

The possible payoff for corporate social media involvement is huge. These firms will have a better sense of how they are professed by their goal spectators, they will found a two method dialog with main stakeholders and they will authorize their clients to talk with them.

YouTube is undoubtedly still on the top of the hierarchy when it comes to video sharing on the web that is why it makes sense to know what tools and resources you should use to enhance your video experience.

The following are just some of the numerous tools you can use to boost up your YouTube performance:

Adobe AIR Applications:
• YouTube Video Widget – this application works online and offline. It is designed with mobile devices in mind. The widget downloads the videos to the local drive and then detects when the device is offline, then switches to play the locally stored copies.
• My YouTube – it plays or downloads videos from YouTube, creates playlists, and manages collections.
• DeskTube – a social YouTube viewer that allows users to send links to friends to open their DeskTube, tweet what videos they are watching, and many more.

Alternative Video Viewing Methods
• AlarmTube – set a time for you to wake up and choose a video you want to see as you rise!
• You3b.com – you can watch three YouTube videos at the same time with this app!
• WiiToob.com – it is a customized YouTube browsing site built with the Nintendo Wii in mind.

FireFox Extensions
• Ant Toolbar – the Ant.com official toolbar includes a YouTube video downloader and a built in FLV player to play the videos downloaded right from there.
• Fast Video Download – this app works with numerous video sites and will also add a download link under embedded YouTube videos you find in other sites.
• Magic’s Video Downloader – assists with downloading FLV videos from approximately two dozen video sharing sites including Youtube.

Greasemonkey Scripts
• BetterTube – this script is supported by more than fifty sites and it allows users to see embed-disabled videos and more.
• Thumbs2Links – allows users to get direct links from any video index page and begin downloading videos without having to go to individual pages.
• YouTube Cleaner – allows users to clean up the appearance of YouTube video pages by removing the related and promoted videos, comments, sharing information and footer. It restores everything if chosen to do so.

Search and Browsing Tools
• TimeTube – allows users to enter few keywords and build a timeline of videos related to them.
• Mappeo.net – a Google Maps and YouTube mashup that allows users to browse by geographical location and narrow things down with keywords.

YouTube Download Sites
• KissYouTube.com – a simple URL change is needed in order to grab any video from YouTube that users want in their collection
• Anjo.to – allows users to download videos from YpuTube and save them in different video formats.
• ExtractYouTube.com – URLs of videos the users want to download are entered and downloaded right away.

Enjoy viewing videos from the internet! Enhance your video experience with these tools!

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SEOs have long been in the business for more than five years already. Right now, it’s not just websites which are the medium for online social media marketing. Videos can be an effective tool too especially those which are uploaded via YouTube. Remember that there are approximately 8 billion videos – not hits but individual videos – viewed online in a month over YouTube. The following are some of the tips in successful video optimization.

1. Title – Just like a typical website SEO, video titles posted online must have the relevant keywords if you are expecting them to optimize.

2. Filenames – Never undermine filenames. Typical Internet users who merely scour the web usually ignore filenames but potential customers of your product/service or potential readers of your site may customize their viewership to include filenames of the videos they uploaded. They are the meticulous kinds of persons and they deserve your attention if you want your overall product or service to be optimized. Just like the video titles, it is highly recommended that video filenames must also be relevant.

3. Tags – Because YouTube is a searchable website, it is also important to tag your uploaded video. Again, tags must be keywords relevant to the video you’ve uploaded.

4. Transcripts – Videos themselves can already capture your website’s intended viewers but placing a descriptive text at the bottom of the video can definitely help. There are a few meticulous persons out there and even those who are intensely curious about the product or service you’re offering that videos – even those with narrations – hardly help if you don’t accompany them with text.

5. Linking – YouTube has a feature which allows you to embed videos or to provide links of your videos to other websites. Maximize this well. YouTube is user-friendly and you can always link your videos to even your personal sites such as Twitter and Facebook.

A recent research released by comScore reports that Canada ranks as the global leader in online video viewing. The February 2009 comScore Video Metrix data showed that 21 million Canadians have viewed more than 3.1 billion videos online during the said month. The results show that the average Candian online video viewer spent 10 hours viewing videos in February which is 53 percent higher than their average viewing time last year.

Popular Video Sites

Google Sites led as the most popular video destination in February for Canadians with more than 1.6 billion videos viewed (52 percent share of all videos watched), and YouTube.com accounting for nearly 99 percent of videos viewed at the property. The second most popular video destination with 55.6 million videos viewed are Microsoft Sites (1.8 percent share), and then followed by the Yahoo! Sites with 45.7 million videos (1.5 percent share).

Each Canadian Viewer Watched Approximately 150 Videos in February

More than 21 million Canadian viewers or 88 percent of the total Canadian internet population have watched an average of 147 video per viewer in February. Google Sites attracted the most viewers with 18.2 million watching an average of 89 videos per viewer during the month. Miscrosoft Sites had 7.1 million viewers, while Facebook ranked third with 5.8 million viewers.

Other findings of the comScore research include the following:
• The average online video was 4.1 minutes in length, up nearly 25 percent from the previous year’s 3.3 minute average.
• More than 1.6 billion videos were viewed by 18 million viewers on YouTube.com in February, representing nearly 90 videos per viewer.
• Nearly 88 percent of the total Canadian Web population viewed online video in February, the highest penetration of the five countries currently reported by comScore Video Metrix (France 82 percent, Germany 82 percent, U.K. 81 percent, U.S. 76 percent).
• The average online video viewer in Canada watched 605 minutes of video in the month, the largest amount of time of the five countries reported by comScore Video Metrix (U.K. 540 minutes, Germany 466 minutes, France 390 minutes, U.S. 312 minutes).

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Social media sites such as Facebook and Youtube will help you build contacts or relationships, exchange information or ideas and keep your friends as a real one or as your real friend (more closure). It is a great place or resource to improve your health. This will not require exercise, only dedication and smart techniques.

I hope this will help, some of the suggestions for social media healthy living:

Step 1: When it comes to good health, the main part of it is consistency; consistency is a little bit difficult like going to the gym or even avoiding eating a certain kind of food. By using social media, it is a great place to communicate with your friends and get any advice from them.

If you want, you can write blog post and send it to your friends or make a group entirely for good health purposes for more feedbacks, encouragement and support…

Step 2: You can research some of the healthy habits. Youtube is a great place to research on it with thousands of clips available.

Remember: Multiple sources, much better.

Step 3: Utilize your group discussions such as sharing more tips, more experiences with same goals to each other. Start connecting now, with friends.

Social media will bring you lots of informative ideas and lots of support from your friends for a better and good health. Try it now…

Youtube is a sharing of videos website that the members or users can upload and can be viewed by non registered users or internet surfers. This was founded in 2005 by three (3) former Paypal employee; Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. November 2006, Youtube,LCC sale to Google Inc. in the amount of US$1.65 billion dollars and it is now running under Google. The company base is located in San Bruno, California, USA. Youtube is Adobe Flash Video generated technology to display the broad variety of uploaded videos and content generated by registered members.

In May 2005 six months prior to the official launching of in November 2005 the Youtube offered to the public a beta test. By July 2006 the Youtube company announced that the site were being uploaded more than 65,000 new videos every day and the website was receiving 100 million views a day.

Last Year June 2008, Forbes magazine release an article that projected the 2008 revenue US$200 million, noting progress in advertising sales.