The world of technological advancements has brought its share of positives and negatives. Just as how a coin has two sides, these developments too have positive and negative impacts. When parents are already concerned that internet gives their children access to content that are not suited for their age, sites like Xtube, PornoTube and Yuvutu have made their presence in web and more importantly, the popularity of Pornotube is growing at an alarming pace. Xtube which was launched in March is also growing in popularity and according to Alexa statistics the site has been growing in popularity. More important to point to note with Xtube is that it has an average page view of 24.5, which just goes to show that Porn is popular. Yuvutu which is modelled on the lines of YouTube, offers facilities to submit amateur videos. while the surfers can rate the videos.

These sites allow users to upload videos and now the question is what is the guarantee that the site viewers are definitely above the age 21? Is it just because some one gives a age higher than 21, does that really mean the surfer is really above 21? when the kids are so intelligent these days, there definitely has to be a mechanism which ensures that only adults enter these sites. This is definitely an issue of concern. When there are regulatory mechanism for Movies, internet which can penetrate easily to anyone’s room needs to be handled much carefully. Technology is a double edged sword and we need to handle it carefully. Already the AOL data base leak indicated the pattern of people search and more recently Wikipedia’s Top 100 list also showcased that SEX is one subject that people throng Net for. It is absolutely Ok as long it doesn’t corrupt the young minds. For it is in this same Web there are wonderful sites like “howstuffworks”, “Make” and “discover” which makes a wonderful ocean to surf.

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