You guys probably know that I am writing my paper on Web 2.0 for seniors. While I was doing my research, I came across this 80 year old man who has made 96 YouTube videos in the last year! Probably I am the last to hear about this because he is the most subscribed to person on YouTube.
I just think it is amazing, though, that someone that old has grabbed onto a trend that is geared mostly toward young people. Oakley’s videos started out telling about his life story and he has expanded to create videos where he interviews young people about the relationship with an older generation, issues he reads about in the paper, and even a video about how to introduce other seniors who may fear technology to use computers.
Oakley thanks his readers all the comments (he gets thousands per video) and calls his “fellow YouTubers his friends. He said it has changed his life:“This YouTube experience has been one of the major changes and breakthroughs in my life and given me a whole new world to experience”.
This Englishman also got so much press that he stopped making videos for awhile because he had never meant to bring publicity to himself, only to connect with others through his videos. So great! I think if this man can learn on his own to make videos at 80 and is lovin’ it, imagine what we can do at the library for other seniors who want to tell their story.
Check him out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ6B2qOFp7Y
