In keeping with the social networking trends, I thought it would be a good idea to add YouTube videos to my blog. (Fact: 6 billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube); the idea was that once a month rather than write the weekly book review for my Chatter On Books blog, I would to do a 5 to 7 minute video ... Sounds simple, right?
That’s what I thought, well, this is how it went down...
- It seemed that the preferred setting was a bedroom, although kitchen and bathroom locations came in close seconds.
- The content was generally delivered in a monotone, and/or a high pitch (read: screech) at the end of every sentence. (I noticed that sometimes the tone was rather condescending, like they were talking to idiots).
- The women (and a few of the men) used a lot of hair flicking, (possibly for effect)
- Most of them (men and women) stared directly at the camera, talking, talking, talking…about anything and about nothing.
- Some actually acted out what they were talking about, complete with sound effects and action shoots (jumping on and off beds and kitchen chairs).
