I found an interesting series of videos on YouTube, and the long-tail phenomenon of them is quite interesting as well. The series is called Cupid On Street, the host finds single boys and girls on street in Taiwan and pairs them depending on few simple descriptions. Each video is actually short that none is longer than 10 minutes, but each video can cause 20 thousand comments on growing, which can last more than 6 months. I also found that the background of heroes and heroines are more attractive to audiences (their appearances, jobs, hobbies, and sometimes even criminal record). These contents are growing out from the original medium, Youtube, to Facebook, Instagram, and even some news sites. After spending less than 10 minutes on the video itself, almost half an hour would be spent on browsing their social sites and reading stories about them. This type of creation is a good representation of Web 2.0, I think.
This is the first of five blogs and I am feeling unexpectedly difficult since my daily media usage is simple and fragmentary. I didn’t have any classes today, I didn’t want to go outside or hang out either which means I had plenty of “blank” time, I call it, indicates that me myself cannot figure out what I’ve done for good dozen hours. In my memory during this “blank” time, I was browsing through YouTube and click on random pieces of videos. My cell phone was never away from my hand for more than 30 seconds but all I did mostly was just unlocking the screen, glancing over everywhere (where there was likely nothing), and locking the screen. This meaningless circulation continued after another 30 seconds. Perhaps, there was plenty of time wasting on digital media, gathering useless information or even none. It is so obvious and serious on me but I weirdly never realised that, not even a single thought about it.
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