Do YouTube like I YouTube? Then you are truly a YouTube addict. Let me explain. I can spend hours on YouTube, but more on that later. Recently, I proposed a topic on YouTube use among some of my amateur radio friends. Most of them confessed, or are proudly admitted to using the service, for entertainment, do it yourself projects or guitar lessons. I’ve been using YouTube for guitar lessons for years. It’s not the video instructors’ fault that I’m not getting very good at it. But that’s free for me and anyone else who wants to dial in and watch some of the musical experts teach us for some thing About the techniques we need to learn. Hey, it’s better than watching wagon train or Gunsmoke episodes on the past although I dare say you can see those on YouTube as well. I even have my own YouTube channel, although the statistics show that I’m one of the only ones that watch it. One exception is the video I did of the haunted barn in Portsmouth years ago. The property owners decorated a barn and back of their home along with the landscape of scary creatures. It was free, donations, accepted, and was a real fun house looking barn. people really got into going there before Halloween every year. Unfortunately, the old owners moved away, and the new owners really only wanted to use it as a barn. But the magic of that barn and outside cemetery display live on so to speak in my haunted barn video. You can see it, also for free on YouTube. Anyway, I asked my friends on the radio what they use YouTube for if they use it at all. Most replied, in the end for any affirmative, but had various and sundry uses for the service. One said that he explored movies that he could watch for free. another confessed to viewing the videos to help him fix his radio equipment. Still another looked for those old black-and-white TV episodes. I, in addition to seeking out guitar tuition, would enjoy watching concert videos. Now I can go to a concert without going to a concert. And at my age, that’s a real relief as opposed to standing in a crowd with someone balancing a kid or a partner on their head, blocking my view, instead sitting there all by myself Enjoying the performance. Oh, the concert videos vary in quality. Some are obviously bootleg, from someone shooting from the crowd. I watch them to see if they capture anything that’s useful fun. Some are really professionally produced, with perfect video and audio. I have used it to solve things. Recently, my laptop screen display turned sideways. I pushed about every button I could, and it wouldn’t straighten out the picture. Finally, I went to YouTube, and somebody with experience told me the two buttons to push to straighten it out. I figure the cat with crossed to the keyboard. For instance, how to take apart part of a refrigerator and blow hot air on it to unfreeze a frozen line? YouTube video showed us exactly how, and we did it until the refrigerator became really unreliable and we got a new one. YouTube videos also showed us the best refrigerators to buy, and those to avoid, at least, in the opinion of the reviewers. Speaking of reviews, you can look at any YouTube video and it will show you some in their opinion of a particular piece of equipment or anything else that you were thinking about buying. I confess sometimes I use those reviews after I bought the product to justify my investment in it. But that’s just me. I have resisted the urge to invest in YouTube TV, a subscription service that costs money. But I know people who do, and they say they swear that they can watch just about anything that way. One day, maybe I’ll wise up and dump my expensive cable service for this streaming YouTube. Do you YouTube?