User-generated content is huge among the kids that are growing up in technology. I know kids as young as elementary school, that have social media sites, despite the age restrictions that said social media site has. Above is an image of the revenue that very popular social media sites have that are all for people using user-generated content. I find it interesting that Myspace is still up there because when conversing with people I rarely hear it talked about anymore. YouTube, however, is right where I expected.
YouTube is something that I always hear talked about among my generation and younger. I hear my younger siblings talk with there friends how they would want to be YouTube famous. Which is amazing to see because the site promotes posting user-generated content. Not only do they like watching them, they enjoy watching the content that so many creators take. I feel like there are not many people that can say they have never look through YouTube for instruction on how to do something. I know I for sure have. There are also many people that use it to document there life and people take an interest in watching their short glimpses into another person's life.
I personally watch some YouTuber's and see them struggling with some of the issues that Larry Lesser, in his Ted talk express might happen. That they are getting copyrighted without some form of review or their content is getting demonetized despite all the views because YouTube did not like the content posted. Is that fair or is this society's way of restricting the content people post. This makes me wonder if YouTubers will be the first to start the major talk that needs to be done around what user-generated content really is.
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