YouTube, an online social network specialized in watching video content, will become more similar to Facebook and other social networks in the future, as its creators add many features typical of full-fledged social networks within a new tab called Community, which brings more interaction and options for users and creators of video content.
YouTube has so far limited user interaction to comments under the clips, a new tab named Community, will offer new possibilities for interaction between users and authors of video content. Among other things, you will be able to pin to the YouTube wall recordings (Live), photos, GIFs etc. and the rest of the users will be able to like or thumbs down it.
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It's currently out in beta, and the first channels to test the Community (they pushed the tab between Playlists and Channels) are John & Hank Green, AsapSCIENCE, The Game Theorists, Karmin, The Key of Awesome, The Kloons, Lilly Singh, Peter Hollens, Rosianna Halse Rojas, Sam Tsui, Threadbanger and Vsauce3.
More information:
youtube-creators.googleblog.com
