YouTube for the Seven Year Old Set
I haven't written here in a while. I've been busy with a lot of things, but that's OK. The purpose of this blog, really, is just to serve as an outlet for my thoughts, and being busy means that role is being filled in other ways. And frankly, busy is an understatement. But I did have one thought... my seven year old son has started posting videos on YouTube. I'm not even sure how to think about that. Obviously, there was no YouTube when I was a kid. We had a VHS camera (when I was some years older than he is now) but it was huge, and required lugging a lot of stuff around. It certainly didn't take videos as well as any run of the mill handheld phone does today. And I never used it much - I definitely didn't have anything of an auteur in me and I thought of the whole thing as just a big inconvenience. I wonder how much of my son's interest is in video-making, as it were, and how much of it is just the equivalent of being interested in video games.