You Tube is a reflection of a sick society

I have been on you tube for over a year now. It’s been an up and down experience, mostly down. On the surface it seems like a great idea. People can upload videos of just about anything and share them with the world. There’s just one problem. The world part. You see much of the world is sick and twisted.
There’s a movie out called “Untraceable”. In the movie a psychopath kidnaps people and puts them on a streaming live internet feed. The people are bound and contraptions are rigged so that depending on the number of viewers the page gets the faster the person dies. I’m afraid that isn’t too far from reality.
Most of the people who tune into You Tube, especially in the religion category, aren’t really there for any meaningful dialogue but to see drama and harass others. The big problem with You Tube is that anyone can join with only an email address and they can have as many accounts as they like without ever showing their faces. And while You Tube claims to have a terms of service agreement they rarely ever do anything to enforce it.
What you have is a chaotic mess of people threatening one another and members with no formal training in any one area putting up videos as if they have some sort of PHD in the subject.

Recently there has been a rather large drama unfolding regarding a ministry that is charged with having aberrant teachings but one quick look over a large portion of the so-called Christian videos there you will find that much of them contain aberrant teachings, heresy, and just a wide array of different opinions and beliefs. In fact if one is not well grounded in their faith they could actually find themselves questioning their faith.

In addition to these problems a large amount of the site has become pornographic in nature. Because the site has a large number of partners who actually get paid for views many of these partners have resorted to placing images of scantily clad women in order to get views, and sadly, it works.

I originally got on You Tube because I saw a large audience of unbelievers saying things about Christianity that just were not true. After I got there though I was shocked to find out that a large amount of people that called themselves Christians were far more hurtful than anything atheists could ever do. You see them fighting one another, making heretical statements, and acting very un-christ like. Even I fell into the trap. As I said you have to be very much on guard in such an atmosphere.

Sadly after over a year of being on You Tube and even closing my account and reopening it a couple of times I have decided that it is not the place for me. I wish the best to the Christians that remain there making videos. There are a handful of decent people and a ton more that are in need of some kind of help. Some Christians left that arena a long time ago to focus on newer mediums such as Stickam.
Maybe one day You Tube will get a better handle on it’s members and actually take action against those who violate the rules there but I doubt it. I think you tube is a good reflection of just how sick our world is getting. I hope as many people can be saved as possible but the selfish part of me wants Jesus to return and clean this mess up.