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Let's face it; YouTube sucks you in, it is a vortex of fascinating videos, some awesome, some awesomely disturbing! Below are the top 5 people who got famous (warranted or not) strictly through YouTube. Enjoy!

The recent case of a Columbia grad, Carla Franklin, seeking to have YouTube release the identity of an anonymous user who posted defamatory comments and videos about her has reignited the debate over internet users' right to privacy:

Features clips from various popular YouTube videos.

YouTube is a social website where the sport of trolling has thrived due to limited technical support, but some users are now striking back by filing lawsuits to have the identity of their harassers made public.

This is so great. I want a dog to do this after I was gone for a while.

The founder of 4chan, a controversial, uncensored online imageboard, describes its subculture, some of the Internet "memes" it has launched, and the incident in which its users managed a very public, precision hack of a mainstream media website. The talk raises questions about the power -- and price -- of anonymity.

Song writer that became popular through the use of YouTube.

Youtube video looking at identity on the internet

User Generated Content (UGC) is re-shaping the way people watch video and TV, with millions of video producers and consumers. In particular, UGC sites are creating new viewing patterns and social interactions, empowering users to be more creative, and developing new business opportunities. To better understand the impact of UGC systems, we have analyzed YouTube, the world's largest UGC VoD system. Based on a large amount of data collected, we provide an in-depth study of YouTube and other similar UGC systems. In particular, we study the popularity life-cycle of videos, the intrinsic statistical properties of requests and their relationship with video age, and the level of content aliasing or of illegal content in the system.

This video is an allegory that compares a community with social media. It's not so much the topic as the presentation - instead of giving us a dry and boring synopsis of what social means and can achieve, it found an analogy and uses simple animation and enthusiastic narration to get its point across.

Gives details of how people use Facebook for the wrong reasons. Where people arent really as they seem. And all of what they say are lies.

Videos from though leaders and industry experts on the future of Facebook and where it's leading us.

This video is based on the work of Sir Ken Robinson who emphasizes the importance of teaching relevant information to today's youth to further united them. A degree is not a guarantee of a future career anymore and here he discusses the economic impact of teaching relevant information and recognizing different learning styles and types of intelligence.

I did a Tumblr post around this video a few weeks ago, and I found it very thought provoking. This video could easily be related to Michael Welsh's video about technology in schools.

This video tells a different perspective on befriending on Facebook. He talks about how if you just add people that you don't know it can be dangerous. There have be people who befriend a person they didn't really know and that person ended up tracking them down and breaking into their house and robbing them. The man on this video also talks about how the police are trying to befriend people posing as someone else to catch underage drinking. They are pretending to be a cute girl or guy to find drinking pictures and tracking those people down and arresting them. The main idea of the video is to make people aware that you need to be careful who you let be your friend.

As much as anyone wants to ignore social media, theres always a way where you can bump into it without even knowing . .

This video shows college students giving a presentation on Facebook identity. They talk about how our identity on online social sites such as Facebook can affect our employment opportunities.

This video shows how people can easily be addicted to facebook and while trying to go a couple of days without it is difficult for them to adjust to a "normal" life.