Youtube is becoming increasingly popular with children and adolescents. Unfortunately, not everything you see there is educationally valuable.
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Instead of watching TV, many children today prefer Youtube. It goes with the time and so the little ones are used from the beginning to the new media . Unfortunately, also to all the dark sides, which have these, because what on Youtube everything is to be seen in media-educationally little valuable things, sums up an article of the, Blogrebellen 'aptly.
Bad role models and surreptitious advertising
As the author, who is a father himself, describes, the major drawback of Youtube is that here in principle every user unfiltered any content, no matter how immoral or antisocial, online. Because there is no editorial office as in conventional television, every film can eventually find its way into the public . At the same time, children tend to take role models they follow and emulate. At this point, Youtube is already problematic for children, because at worst, children just find the particularly "funny" Youtuber witty, showing in their videos how they urinate into the public and earn their money with such a pig, Children then take such people as role models and develop, if one has bad luck, even a fool.
Not so bad, but at least as funny, it can run when children do not see through the semi-camouflaged product placement in Youtube films . Then it can happen that children and teenagers even make videos in which they enthusiastically introduce products without even earning a dime. As the video "Growing up with Assi-Youtubers" aptly says: In the past, children still played at home, today they play Youtube-Star on Youtube .
Here you can see what your children see on Youtube
