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.

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!

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!

Some bad/innapropriate user content, but a few are good!

I had personally only used YouTube to view videos and show/movie clips, but I caught my son viewing porn and about died. Since I had never searched for it, I wasnt aware it was available. But now I know. I did some researching today and will be turning on the Safe Mode

It's very useful, And educantional, becuase it's has tutriol videaos.

My concerns are that the people on you tube can be cyber bullies. I found chain letter comments, rude and mean comments, and it can show where the video was made.....

please don't say h-te.