14 DAY TRIAL // It all started when Ryan Fitzgerald decided that it's the time for some action in his life and posted a clip of YouTube showing his cell phone number. Just after the clip was uploaded, Ryan received more than 5.000 calls and a huge number of text messages. He wanted to talk to any user calling him but there was only a problem: T-Mobile, his cell phone operator, offers free minutes only for the weekend while the weekly charging is quite expensive. However, Ryan Fitzgerald decided to be there for anyone who wants to talk, just like a mother who needs to talk with her son.
"Come Monday, no way I'm going to just hang up on people and say, 'I don't have the minutes. Come people's own mothers won't take the time to sit down and talk with them and have a conversation. But some stranger on YouTube will. After six seconds, you're not a stranger anymore, you're a new kid I just met," CBS News reported.
As you can see, YouTube is no longer an online video sharing service as a lot of users are attracted by the product having a different goal than the one presented by Google: publish, share and comment clips with other members of the community. Back in March, YouTube was the only chance to survive for a woman fighting against leukemia. At that time, a woman diagnosed with this deadly disease, decided to upload a clip on YouTube to present her story and try to find a matching donor. After the video recorded an impressive number of views and comments, she managed to find a bone marrow donor in Denmark who managed to rescue her life. Google's product is also a police utility because numerous police officers published surveillance clips on YouTube to identify and arrest the suspects.