In this experiment we want to know how popular and reliable YouTube is as a social media facility. Another thing is to provide an opportunity for us to gather, consolidate and interpret data in a meaningful manner. Cooperation, patience, critical thinking among group members is critical in this experiment.
On July 14, 15 and 16, we conducted the YouTube Traffic Experiment. We choose a specific schedule (6:00-8:00pm) for three consecutive days. The group watch the recent 20 videos uploaded in YouTube and gathered a lot of data. Information are extracted and posted in this blog.
Categories of the Videos
Languages used
Other info
Average length of videos uploaded: 1:59
Average age of uploader: 28
No. of videos blocked: 3
*The most used language in YouTube is English. Not so much here since most of the uploaders comes from USA and English is the universal language. Some videos doesn't contain any clue of what language they are using. It's either because there is no one talking or there are no information shared in the uploaded video.
Average length of videos uploaded: 1:59
Average age of uploader: 28
No. of videos blocked: 3
Conclusion
We can conclude that YouTube is a popular and reliable social media facility. Most of the videos uploaded are all about ideas and emotional feelings of the uploader. They want other people to know what they feel and hear comments from them. Most of these people are at their legal age.
Other things discovered during this experiment are: 1) the use of YouTube for commercial purposes like selling of real estate, 2) those bad videos uploaded(no editing, crap quality) came from newbie and haven't uploaded something yet, 3) some videos are uploaded by group of people or an organization not just by one person only.
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