Users can create playlists and watch their favorite videos together

Jun 15, 2012 14:31 GMT  ·  By

Hangouts has been one of the best and most appreciated Google+ feature. One of its interesting abilities was the YouTube integration that allowed users to watch videos in sync. That feature is getting a major update, the ability to create YouTube playlists collaboratively.

"Create, control, save and even share playlists of videos with your friends—all inside a Hangout. Just start a Hangout, have everyone load the YouTube app at the top of the screen, and start adding videos. It’s like your own VIP table at the world’s coolest YouTube party," YouTube announced.

This happens in real life more often than you'd probably want to admit, people get together and sooner or later they start sharing YouTube videos, queuing up their latest finds, trying to outdo each other.

Some of us, who have been around before the web, as we know it, took off, may still find this troubling or at least odd. Not so with the younger generation who finds it perfectly natural. It's probably for the best too.

In any case, now you can do this entirely online, which is fitting since that's where it all started from.

Hangouts participants can add their favorite videos or the latest viral they found to the playlist, they can use the search tool in the Google+ YouTube app for this. Anyone can change up the playlist or hit next so boring videos won't last long.

"Click the 'Push to talk' button to chat with the group to give props to the best curator, or to hand out reprimands to the friend who keeps adding the 10-hour Nyan Cat video," YouTube explained.

"If you like a video that’s playing, you can share the video with your Google+ circles at any time. Since great playlists are works of art, you can also save the playlist that you and your friends created to your YouTube account as public or private to enjoy later," it added.