Is YouTube a Safe Site For Children to Use?
YouTube, like many other user-generated sites, has a lot of great videos and music to offer to the entire family. One can look up old Bugs Bunny cartoons, or even shorts from Sesame Street on YouTube, and usually find a lot of terrific content. Videos that are inappropriate are usually flagged within a day of being put up, and people who violate YouTube appropriateness clauses can lose their membership. While at first, this sounds like the YouTube site might prove safe for a child to use, in fact the opposite is true unless one wants to expose a child to a great deal of obscenity, both in pictures and words. Sometimes a video on YouTube isn’t offensive but comments following it by users are, or a title itself uses profanity. As well, searches for videos can often lead to inappropriate content immediately, which has not yet been deleted or flagged. When one uses a search for favorite kid-friendly things on YouTube, one is also given a list of other possibly related topics. A child navig
