YouTube: The definition of lazy blogging

Over the past year, there’s been a sharp increase in lazy blogging. Lazy blogging seems to happen when people don’t seem to have much to say but are tickled by the latest, greatest YouTube video. Surfing for blogs, I come across so many that have little more than embedded YouTube videos. People don’t even bother to preface what they are about to show you, each entry is simply an embedded YouTube video.

Now I have seen a couple instances of purposefully curated video blogs that link to videos of a particular type. But sharing random YouTube videos seems to be a mode of expression cultivated by the especially lazy. I didn’t think it can really even be called blogging. It’s such a banal form that one wonders what the motivation is. “Hey, check out this cool video I saw” repeated day after day ad nauseam.

It’s okay to link to YouTube when it enhances your point or provides explanation. And very rarely there is a video just worth linking to. But when the videos aren’t your own and that’s all you’re providing, is there really a point? The point is that blogging takes effort, and it takes time. Posting YouTube videos is a waste of space, and there are probably better things to do with your time, you know?

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