QuietGorilla - Watched by Women over 55

It has been a couple of weeks since I last posted on either this blog or YouTube. I have during that time made a few videos, but after watching them decided not to post them. The reason is that I found myself straying from what I originally intended to accomplish. I re-awoke this blog and decided to post on YouTube in an attempt to better understand, and appreciate, how the use of Web 2.0 technology is transforming interpersonal communication and ourselves. Posting on YouTube however as resulted in some interesting personal experiences, which I have decided to document as well.

As I discussed in my third video, after posting my first video, I experienced a highly uncharacteristic sense of shyness. Subsequent to posting two more videos, I have found myself compelled to make video responses for other peoples' posts. As I indicated at the outset of this project, I was using the medium as a means to an end, in hope of garner more information that might answer the lingering questions with which I was struggling. It was never my intention to make skits, vlogs, or responses. And yet, over the last two weeks, I have found myself itching to enter into the dialogue with other posters. I have even produced video responses that were personal experiences or opinions on topics other than the original one that brought me posting on YouTube. After viewing those videos however, I was reminded of my original intent and questioned how straying off topic might alter the process. I will admit that I struggled with the desire to post those videos, but in the end, I decided to keep my focus (a challenge for me at the best of time) and just document my YouTube experience.

I have also decided to recombine my videos in which I am pursuing a line of questioning as well as documenting my own experiences. I think my attempt to separate what I wanted to know, from what I was experiencing myself, was artificial. So I am back to just one stream of questions.

Lastly, I had been waiting to hit 100 views on one of my videos, but I seemed stalled at 99 for a few days, so I decided to go with that anyway and see what the Insight feature told me about my viewership. When I first explored that function, it indicated that all my views had come from inside Canada ... ok ... and that all the viewers were over 55 years of age ... interesting ... and female ... strange : O

I don't think that that is an accurate reflection of my viewership, so I am questioning how that data is collected. I went back in to examine it again the other night, and now receive a message saying that my viewership is too low to provide demographic data. Oh well. It sounded funny.

So to all 99 of my females over 55 viewers ... thank you ; P

QG