Two years ago, who would have predicted that an on-line video sharing website would attract an audience to the tune of 100 million views per day?  Is there any prophet out there who would have suggested that YouTube’s founders would be able to sell their site for the staggering sum of 1.65 billion dollars?  And how is it possible that there are (at last count) 65,000 people adding a video to this site daily?  What in the name of God is driving randomperson1969 to post a video of himself and his best friend dancing to Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean, or boredteenager2007 to add a clip of himself skateboarding off a 20 foot wall and crashing in an unsuspecting family’s backyard?  And would somebody explain to me why princessgurl1990 feels the need to post a video of herself smiling suggestively to the camera in her underwear??? (btw, those three examples are all made up, but sadly representative of what is out there for all to view)

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