YouTube is going down the social-networking route, with a new feature that allows you to share videos with family and friends.
Taking a leaf out of Facebook – which has a 'people you may know' feature – YouTube is to soon offer a 'you may know these people' suggestions box on the homepage.
Lost and found
On the YouTube blog, Elizabeth Windram, Senior User Experience Designer, explains how YouTube will offer friend recommendations: "If you've logged in to YouTube and sent a video to a friend's email address, or if you have your YouTube account linked to a Gmail account, we will use this information to help identify your friends who already have YouTube channels.
"You'll only see channels whose owners have allowed themselves to be found by others who have their email address."
There's no timeframe for the feature to appear on YouTube, other than "in the next few weeks".
Your comments (1) Click to add a new comment
chrisinbelgium
September 11th
1. I am not in the least interested in having this *functionality* in Youtube! And - fair warning - if I get no option to opt out of this, I will bl**dy well cancel my Youtube account and remove all my contacts from Gmail.
You have been warned.
Alert a moderator
Tell us what you think
You need to Log in or register to post comments