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All member reviews for YouTube

robinrunner
teen, 14 years old
 
viewers should stay cautious
Youtube can be an educational place or a place to get information through video. The only problem is anyone can upload one, with whatever innopropriate content they'd like. And once you see something through your eyes, it's hard to get out of your brain

gir8
kid, 12 years old
 
It depends on what you watch
Youtube is a good website, but is it inaproppiate? It really depends on what you watch. If your a parent and think that your child is looking up inaproppiate stuff on Youtube, then watch them the next time they're on. Other than that, it's an awesome website!!!!!

icarlyloverforever
kid, 11 years old
 
Wrong! Wrong! WRONG!
OK the common sense people are wrong. I know for a fact that youtube should be for age 10+. And it can't be iffy for 13 to ages 15. It should be inappropriate for ages 6 and under, iffy for 7 to 9, then age appropriate for ages 10+ OK so I cleared it up. Now I hope they take my advice and do what I say. They are very wrong.

AnimeGirl-Nikki
teen, 15 years old
 
I say that it's okay for tweens and up, but you should use your own judgement when it comes to your own kid
Youtube has been one of my favorite sites to visit and submit things to since I found out about it in '07. Just like the site's motto, Youtube is a place where you can 'Broadcast Yourself'. You can find educational, entertaining, and even inspirational videos on this site. However, like any site that has user-submitted material, there are some inappropriate things. Language in some videos and the comments of videos isn't always the cleanest. The content of certain videos may be violent or sexual. One of the good things is is the fact that you can use the Safety Mode feature to turn off anything that you don't want to be shown. And even if you don't use the Safety Mode, many videos that are overtly violent or sexual aren't available to users under 18. (Of course, people can lie about their age on their account, but if you set up the account with your child, you can ensure that this doesn't happen.)You can also flag or report videos that you may find offensive or inappropriate, and Youtube actually takes this into consideration and has actually suspended or shut down people on the site for posting the bad material. But all in all, Youtube is a great site to connect with other people who share your interests, entertaining yourself, and 'Broadcasting Yourself'.

c0nFuS3d
teen, 14 years old
 
Uhmm.... over reacting much??
It all depends on the the parent!! Some times people post videos that are "iffy" but other times, its just fine. When you search you can find both good AND bad videos The thing is, if you have a youtube channel and post videos about anything, be ready to have haters (aka people who leave bad comments on page) especially about certain beliefs. In the end, it depends on the parent because, they have to trust they taught their children right from wrong. Some of my friends love watching innappropriate vids, but I leave the room when they start to. I also live in constant fear that if I click something on accident, my parents may see it. Another thing I advise, staying up-to-date with the history of the computer. That way, your kid knows and will watch what he or she clicks on.

 
The main reviewer is an idiot
Reviewing this site is pretty dumb, the material on this site is whatever the other users wish to put up with the exception of nudity. There's nothing to stop users from using profanity but there is a profanity guard available in video options so that isn't a problem. There's pedophiles on the site so don't let your children run a blog.

nsvv
teen, 14 years old
 
Loads of great content and loads of bad content: only for mature children.
You've certainly heard all about YouTube, so there's no need to describe what it is. YouTube has got an incredible amount of fantastic, entertaining and educational user content, but this is balanced by a large amount of more inappropriate user content. You can't put an age rating on it because it depends on your child's maturity. If you trust them and know that they are sensible enough to make good decisions, by all means let them use it as it is an incredible invaluable resource. However, if you suspect that your child will negatively exploit it, keep it banned.

iliketurtles45
kid, 11 years old
 
The safety mode isn't very accurate. I once had SAFETY MODE on and I accidentally watched a video with the f-bomb in it. Way to go for making dad ground me for a week, Youtube.

beckzzy
teen, 14 years old
 
I Started Using It When I Was About 9 I Luv It Too Much

teamjacobgirl2.0
teen, 17 years old
 
Stop overreacting parents!
YouTube is one of those websites that is 100% unavoidable. Everyone has been on YouTube and even thought some comments\videos are going too far with drugs and things like that parents can't stop their kids from going on. I think YouTube is easy to get around and its fun to sit and watch weird and random videos. Defentily a great site and parents shouldn't overreact.

angelostar
kid, 12 years old
 
youtube isnt that bad I go on it every day I just choose not to go on anything bad

labtop909
parent of 10 year old
 
I don't know
I can't say I love this website or that I hate it. The good thing is that it inspires children to be creative. Creativity is something all children need but CAN get better sources of it in other places. Alot of bad languge, sexual behavoir and other inoproproit things have popped up on youtube. One time, my four year old got on youtube all by herself. She clicked a random vidio becouse she saw Rudolph the red nosed deer becouse she likes him. It turned out to be a gory horor.She was scared out of her mind and ran to me. She showed me this clip.I banned her from the internet for a while. Although in this case youtube has been unsafe, my sister bought a sofywear that block inopproproit content. Youtube can either be terrible or great.

Cooldee
parent
 
Be careful of bad talk!
I love Youtube, but there is alot of swearing, violence, and bullying. Block Youtube for ages younger than 13!

mr.travis
parent of and 4 , 7 , 10 year old
 
WAY too many wildcards on youtube
There is a smuttiness prevalent on youtube that ultimately has made it off-limits to my kids. Example: a friend forwarded a funny Christmas video showing costumed monks presenting the "Hallelujah Chorus," silently using signs. As soon as it was finished, up come the suggested videos, one of which is entitled "the 12 gays of Christmas." I didn't watch that one - maybe it was funny too - but I surely didn't care to explain to by children age 8, 6 and 3 what the title might mean. So even when I'm in territory on youtube that seems kid safe, it seems somewhere on the page there something about (actual examples again) "how to shoot up heroin" or something about oral sex techniques. I have posted several videos to youtube and been disappointed and often shocked at the abusive, sexual language left as comments, even though the videos were of my small children and were posted simply for their grandparents to see. (We're not posting any family videos to youtube any longer.) There seems to be a poisonous misanthropy among youtube users - or at least among commenters - that to me is starting to feel like the lingua franca of the web in general. Based on experience in the last year I'm starting to find the web an unsafe place for kids overall. Maybe these problems will be addressed by the new safety feature. It will be hard to convince me, though. With the exception of text content, it seems to me that safety features will rely on user-provided tags and flags. As I have said, I don't have a lot of faith in youtube users as advocates for children. As for quality, it's a phenomenal challenge to find content of genuine merit. Flippant fun is what we find primarily. All this was a lot more fun before we had children. Now comes responsibility... sigh.

unixworm
parent of 18 year old
 
shut it down!

goodperson4
teen, 14 years old
 
kids aint pervs
kids shouldnt be perverted to look bad stuff up

leku200
parent of and 3 , 5 , 10 , 13 , 15 year old
 
Can be helpful, sinful, and just plain weird!
If you or your kid plays video games it's likely that you've watched some gameplay, walkthoughs, ect. Almost every single video from the main gaming video suplier, Machinima, it's loading with language. Usally the gamers making the video compare video games with sexual content. "Those two games are my whores that I ride while waiting for my princess to come home...." Whatever game they were talking about followed. Stuff like that usally is in gaming videos on Youtube from Machinima. BUT, there is A TON of perfectly fine channels with funny videos or whatever else you were looking for. I havn't scene a single porn video availble on Youtube, the owners of Youtube are great and keeping that stuff off of the site. Anyways, it's really just a guessing game when it comes to the content of the video. Hope this helped!

drmwelsh
parent
 
When using the new filter make sure you turn the filter on for every web browser on your computer (Explorer, firefox). Turning it on using explorer does not turn it on for firefox. Also, make sure to log on and save and lock your setting. Finally, you also have to log back out to finalize the deal. This filter should be a opt-out system in order to keep more kids safe!

 

personpersonperson
teen, 16 years old
 
good,but check what ur child is veiwing
its a good site for videos,just dont let your children watch nasty videos.my only concern is there IS alot of violence even though the review says there isnt,i have seen ALOT of bloody crap.also the pop out videos ,those still scare the crap outta me.