For young people, social media can mean community, learning and even survival. By Oliver Jobe
I CAN’T remember the first time I used social media, but I can remember some of my earliest moments on YouTube. I would have been in year 3 or 4, around 10 years old, but I remember how I felt as I watched random people cook and play video games.
I remember watching YouTubers who were fun and made me laugh, like Grian and Skeppy, or YouTubers who taught me something, like Tom Scott, MatPat, and Kurzgesagt, or YouTubers who would cover some random hyper fixation I had, like Eddache, MKBHD, and No Rolls Barred.
You probably have no idea who any of these people are, or maybe you know one or two, but these are just a few of the people from all parts of the internet who shaped my early years online, all the way up to today. Those people gave me comfort in times of stress, they taught me things I never would have known otherwise, and they entertained me when I had some down time.
I CAN’T remember the first time I used social media, but I can remember some of my earliest moments on YouTube. I would have been in year 3 or 4, around 10 years old, but I remember how I felt as I watched random people cook and play video games.
I remember watching YouTubers who were fun and made me laugh, like Grian and Skeppy, or YouTubers who taught me something, like Tom Scott, MatPat, and Kurzgesagt, or YouTubers who would cover some random hyper fixation I had, like Eddache, MKBHD, and No Rolls Barred.
You probably have no idea who any of these people are, or maybe you know one or two, but these are just a few of the people from all parts of the internet who shaped my early years online, all the way up to today. Those people gave me comfort in times of stress, they taught me things I never would have known otherwise, and they entertained me when I had some down time.
