Youtube innovative concept, opened up a new world of online videos upload and storage where netizens could freely share their video files for free of cost. No wonder, within months since its introduction, YouTube mania caught up with netizens around the world like a raging wild fire that the portal became one of the most visited websites in the cyberspace in the matter of less than a year. While some people used it as a medium to share their fun video collection with other netizens, others saw YouTube as an effective medium to promote their online businesses worldwide. Further, creative people used it as a sounding board to introduce their creations to the public, or to reach to them, to a little extend at least, academic related videos are also uploaded into YouTube by various sources for enabling free access to interested students.

But, the biggest USP of YouTube was that it was so easy to handle that even someone with the least knowledge about the web could upload videos without anybodys help.

With the stupendous success of YouTube, which prompted search giants Google to buy out the firm a couple of years since its introduction, other online video portals also emerged, with most of them focusing on select categories rather than a general video portal like YouTube. As of today, there are many online video portals in the internet that deal with different categories, ranging from music and movies to sports, funny clips, and fashion, to name a few. Some such popular sites include Imteaz, Sharkle, and Metacafe.

As the online video scenario continues to evolve, today, apart from uploading online videos, such online video portals also offer netizens options to post comments each video they upload, make video games uploads, categorize personal choices, download select online videos, and even live video streaming from various media and other sources. Some portals even offer video mailing features wherein random videos from select categories are emailed to the user email account on subscription, much like newsletters.

While it is true that most online videos portals employ human editors to screen the video uploads they receive, given the sheer number of netizens accessing the system, it is not so practical to closely monitor and clear each of the video files uploaded. Hence, the onus is on the parents to monitor and exercise check on the online video sites their children could access in the internet. For netizens, on the other hand, doing unwarranted things such as uploading hate content or uploading ripped parts of pirated videos could lead to legal issues, and hence must be refrained from. After all, online video portals such as YouTube and Imteaz, while offering their services, expect visitors to use it in a responsible way, and not with a destructive bend of mind.