Mike Wesch "An Anthropological Introduction to You Tube"

Today I watched a video by Mike Wesch “ An Anthropological Introduction to You Tube”. It was a very interesting video on how you tube became of the popular website. Mike Wesch had said in the video that you tube produced more viewers in 6 months then more then 3 networks in 60 years. You tube is on 9232 hours/day, more then 385 always on channels, over 200,000 videos are music videos and over 88% is new. You tube became so popular because it spread from person to person just like myspace, everyone was using it or uploading videos on you tube. Before you tube it was also very difficult to upload videos on to the internet. Mike Wesch produced a video on to you tube about texting and how people should rethink it because it brings people together like a community, and how people should rethink a lot of things and themselves. He uploaded that video a few days before the super bowl and it became number 1 by the super bowl and stayed in the number one spot beating a lot of super bowl commercials that was made with millions of dollars and Mr.Wesch produced it and uploaded it himself. Mike Wesch is an anthropologist professor and he has students that participate on what they study so they upload videos to you tube as well. A rapper was also made famous by the you tube craze because he made a song on his computer and made a dance to it and it turned into an internet and dance craze, it was the soulja boy dance. He had people from kids to teachers to professors and to any other kind of person you can think of doing the soulja boy dance, and when the video came out it had a bunch of people on you tube re creating the dance that he made.