If you haven’t heard of YouTube, it may be time to put the rock you’ve been living under up for sale.
I’m sorry, I’m teasing.
Seriously though, if you haven’t discovered YouTube, you absolutely have to get on board.
Of course, as with all technology, my kids were on YouTube long before me. They would constantly be referring to what they saw on YouTube and forever shoving the laptop in my face saying – no really, you have to watch this!
I was a little slow to warm up to it until I needed to fix my kitchen sink.
Let me explain. There was a problem with my kitchen sink in my previous house. Every time I pulled the plug to drain my sink, a big sploosh of water would dump into the cabinet below. Only when I drained the sink, not when I just ran the water. I couldn’t figure out what was going on. Plumbers are expensive and I really didn’t want to call one unless I absolutely had to.
I decided to see if I could find any help on line. I started Googling (searching) things like “leaking kitchen sink”, “kitchen pipe leaks” and “piping under kitchen sink”. YouTube videos kept coming up. After clicking around for a bit, I found a YouTube video by a plumber showing how to install drain pipes under a kitchen sink. As I watched it and looked at my pipes, I realized that there was a cap missing on the overflow pipe and that’s where the water was coming from!
The video cost me 10 minutes of my time and cap cost me 4 bucks!
YouTube! I was hooked!
Now I look up stuff all the time!
I watch comedian performances on my lunch hour
I watch music videos
I get fitness ideas
I watch cooking demos
And so much more!
I even managed to get YouTube working on my Smart TV and have found some dancercise routines to dance along with.
I’ve also learned a ton about blogging from video bloggers. These bloggers are called “YouTubers”. YouTubers blog the same way I do but they use video instead of writing. And they are gaining popularity like you wouldn’t believe. I personally don’t follow any yet but my kids sure do! Some YouTubers are becoming celebrities in their own right just like talk show hosts. And they are making money – lots and lots of money!
This, my friends, is where the similarity ends.
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