A World I Never Knew Existed

            

                                                      A World I Never Knew Existed 

       Growing up technology wasn't all that well known or yet as popular as it is now in 2016. Now in today's world technology is known world wide and it keeps expanding. My 6 year old daughter has pretty much grown with technology her whole life making it part of her everyday life. I know it sounds harsh but it is today's norm. My daughter is able to navigate through the web and knows how to use a phone, she's able to open up phone applications on a cell phone and even knows how to make phone calls. At that age I had no idea what a cell phone was, at that age I was playing with toys or the good old days of having some outdoor fun were the norm 18 years ago. My discovery to technology that impacted my life on a whole different level was the day my life was changed completely, which was around six years ago, I know it wasn't too long ago but I can clearly recall the day I discovered a world I knew nothing about, it was a world that I never knew even existed. 

      At the age of 18 navigating the web just looking around at non sense I came across YouTube. YouTube is a video sharing website where you can upload anything and everything. On YouTube you can find all sorts of videos and I mean hundreds and hundreds of videos. Videos such as how to apply makeup, how to cook, how to fix your car, how to learn a new language, music videos, people who document their everyday life on a daily basis to show to the whole world, even advice videos, I mean the list just keeps going on and on and it is ridiculously amazing. At the age of 18 when I came across YouTube I found this community of women who are known as beauty gurus, and these are women that make videos on how to apply makeup these women are like you and I sitting on a chair in a room in their home talking to the camera and recording how they apply their makeup. They do makeup reviews and share their tips and tricks on beauty related topics. I seriously became hooked on these videos, I couldn't wait to get home to watch videos for hours straight and it actually became very time consuming and because of that I opted for staying up all night to watch these videos and I would literally wake up the next day with only four to five hours of sleep, but I didn't mind I was completely hooked. Now six years later here I am still hooked on these type of videos, although I explored and now watch all types of videos on there, I've seriously learned so much from these YouTube videos and now I find all these type of videos to be part of my everyday life because I watch them religiously, it's kind of scary to think of it that way but when I open that YouTube page I enter a whole new world.