> YouTube is basically what "SecondLife" was supposed to be. People are exchanging all kinds of valuable information and entertainment on YouTube.
A keen observation!
A keen observation!
One example: I learned how to clean my toilet from this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd6pV5lyvG8&t=1s
The comments are hilarious... Tons of people having the same "AHA" moment. (Basically you paper mache your toilet with vinegar and wait a couple hours. Old mineral stains come off like butter!)
Compare a google search for "clean toilet" and it feels like a bunch of SEO-infested crap.
YouTube is more like the "old web" where you can get a real opinion on something.
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I have friends who cook and that's a whole other subculture of YouTube. I've been watching a good MMA show. And there are programming streams, and pretty much every programming conference has an archive, which is a rich archive of free information (e.g. PyCon, CppCon, etc.)
I don't know what's going on in Second Life now but to me it feels like it's probably not "real life". I guess people want "life" and not "second life", and video is becoming an increasingly large aspect of the former.