Still Life...Action

Of all of the Web 2.0 applications I acutally use Flickr and Youtube, if only to watch other peoples videos and pictures, without thinking "Oh! this is Web 2.0 technology". So I think in that sense all of this 2.0 world it is only as useful as one wants to use it in her/his world.

Having said that though, I think, like anything else, both Flickr and Youtube are useful, and entertaining but both can be abused. Looking at a video of a family member's wedding that you couldn't attend or broadcasting how strong/violent an earthquake was is useful, and I can think of numerous ways that it is positive. But I have also come across disturbing footage of people hunting and killing animals and provoking animals to attack. Now I guess it is a question of what one finds entertaining, but I hate to think that the latter examples are encouraging people to duplicate violence for either educational, useful or entertainment value to visit on either animals or humans.


So I think having Flickr and Youtube are valuableish tools, but like anything else the 'valuable' factor is subjective.