subject: Things We Can Learn From Youtube [print this page] Did you know you could learn just about anything on YouTube? Millions of videos on practically every subject imaginable are available. No longer do you check your How-To books from the library. If you want to understand plumbing services, painting techniques, home improvement projects you just YouTube your problem and a short video will have you on your way in no time.
A recent scan of How to on YouTube turned up such promising videos as How to Kiss with Passion, How To open a beer bottle with a piece of paper, How to moon walk like Michael Jackson. Also in the lineup was How to speak English, How to dump your girlfriend and the list goes on for almost a million videos on how to get things done.
The key is to be specific. For instance in our example of how perform a drain cleaning type in a specific problem. Under the heading of plumbing problems 124,000 videos popped up. If you want to know how to do something, anything from fixing your camera to how to use the Internet, YouTube has videos to help.
Type in painting techniques and 370,000 helpful videos will be at your service. Talk about overkill! Combine that with Google image for instance children's room decorating ideas and you will have more suggestions than you could use in 100 lifetimes with 100 children!
Do you want to learn to cook? Over 30 million videos appear. You had better be more specific. How about just Chinese cooking or Southern fried chicken video's the choices are eternal. You can video yourself into the world's finest cook.
For do-it-yourselfers YouTube and Google images combined offer an endless array of ideas, crafts, projects, quilts, scrap book pages, decorating ideas and home improvement projects. You may have to sort through the labyrinth of ideas available to get the one you like. When you find a series of videos you like, book mark the producer and use them for other projects. Some are more professionally produced than others are.
If you want to tackle a home improvement job like fixing the bathroom sink from leaking, YouTube is at your disposal. In addition, if things don't work out, you can always call a plumber to come to your rescue. Why not be brave and try it yourself. What's the worse that can happen the sink is already plugged. YouTube yourself a successful project like cooking Southern fried chicken, repainting a room, or even moon walking like Michael Jackson!
