Tuesday, 27 October 2015

You hate ads, I hate ads, we all really hate ads! There must be some kind of purpose towards them, maybe it's just God testing our patience, who knows. Ads come for various reasons, but the main reason behind someone installing an add isn't to annoy you and make you pay to get rid of them, rather, there is a lot of money to be made from the ads in themselves, many people throughout all of youtube make almost all of their money from the ads that are placed.

This moves us to the next part in the topic, would an add free YouTube ruin the revenue of most You-Tubers? Of course it would, they'd all be broke if everyone just decided to go ad free and pay YouTube. One reason why ad free youtube is a terrible idea, even if everyone had it.

But why the price? Isn't ten dollars a month a little too much for an ad that you can skip within a few seconds of coming up anyways, rarely you'll encounter the 30 second add, and hey, they've become a little more entertaining. 

What about the various programs that have gained so much popularity, have you heard of adblockers?  Yes, probably. It costs no money to install an adblocker, so why in the world would you be paying over a hundred dollars for a full year of no ads anyways?

In my opinion, YouTube has gone a little overboard with this, you just have to wonder what they were thinking... I hope we all as a community can conclude that ad-free youtube in itself is a terrible idea, but to add such a price tag is beyond foolish.

Please let me know though if you disagree, as I would like to know the positives of an add-free YouTube with such an expensive cost. DONT BE SCARED I WANT TO HEAR YOUR OPINIONS!

Thursday, 8 October 2015

Is Television Dying? (Yes it is).

Television. We used to all watch it for hours a day, or is that just me? Probably not! Television is indeed dying, with the replacement of smartphones, us as individuals and a society have reverted away from television, why? Because they aren't as mobile as cell phones, with cell phones you can watch and do whatever you want, whenever you want, wherever. It'd be fitting to say that cell phones and tablets have absolutely outclassed televisions. The only thing the youth (and many adults) are doing at this point in time with television is using it as a source as a screen for their video games, then again, computer monitors are doing that too. There is only one primary thing that we use on the television, and that is the news, however what do you know!? that is being replaced because it is on our cell phones too! As a society we must face that nothing on this planet any time soon will replace the things we use, even with new televisions coming yearly, lets face it, when was the last time you did something on your television that you couldn't do elsewhere? As nifty as the television was, it will most probably in the near future become non-existent. The only thing I even do on the television anymore is play video games and in rare occasions if I don't check a tablet or my twitter for CP24 or CNN notifications then and only then will I check the television. To conclude, yes, I do think television is dying. With the advertisements that last longer than the programs themselves we are destined to switch to something that has less… annoying things. We can’t even blame the people who work on the televisions, lets face it, cell phones, tablets, and computers have taken over the world.