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When you start uploading your own videos and other Tubers take notice,
you’ll probably get some subscribers to your channel. You may also get
requests to be added to other Tuber’s Friends list. If you’re really lucky, you
may get some Tuber groupies. Just don’t let your significant other know.
But if you want to do some really cool stuff, like look for some videos you
actually want to view, you need to know how to get from Point A to Point B to
Point C. The YouTube designers have made that task relatively simple. You
get reminders when new stuff is available or when new features are added.
You can take the point-and-click approach to finding out what YouTube has to
offer or follow our road map in Chapter 3.
If you’re watching a YouTube video at work and you hear the unmistakable
stiletto click of your supervisor’s high heels rushing toward your cubicle,
mute the sound and dim your monitor so that the video isn’t visible. When
your supervisor arrives, slap the side of the monitor and frown. If you’re
lucky, your supervisor will think you’re experiencing a technical malfunction,
not watching a YouTube video.
The previous tip doesn’t work if you’re employed by the IT department of
your company.
Finding the Perfect Video
YouTube has videos. Lots of videos. Finding a video you actually want to view
is like looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack. You can randomly
sift through each portal of the YouTube Empire until you find what you want.
However, that could take years.
Instead of randomly tip-toeing through the YouTube video collection, you can
get scientific and search YouTube. You can do a wild-guess search, or really
get down to brass tacks and use YouTube features to search the vault and
find what you deem the perfect video. You can search through all videos or
refine your search by perusing channels, groups, or playlists. You can also
sort search results. You view each video in turn, or compile a Quicklist,
which can be viewed at your leisure. We show you how to do all this and
more in Chapter 4. Figure 1-5 shows the results of a category search.
If you find yourself frequently opening your favorite Web browser and typing
www.youtube.com in the address bar, you may be a Tubeaholic. Advanced
symptoms of the disease include keeping the YouTube Web site open in a
minimized browser so that you can maximize it when none of your fellow
employees or supervisors are nearby. Fortunately, the disease isn’t harmful
to your health, but it can pose problems when it’s time for an employee
review. Unfortunately, little help is available for this problem. Tubeaholics
Anonymous hasn’t been invented yet.
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