Watching videos

Online video platforms such as YouTube are all about watching videos.…This ought to be pretty straight forward or else these sites would not be very successful.…But let's look at the details so your comfortable with different aspects of…playing videos. As you can see, I'm on the YouTube…homepage, but I'm logged in. Your homepage may look a little bit…different if you are not logged in but everything I'm going to show you in this…movie will be the same. If you need instructions for creating an…account please check out YouTube essential training that goes over that in detail.…

Now I just want to talk about playing videos and the first thing to realize is…that every time you see one of these thumbnails on YouTube.…You can click it and go directly to that video and it will play automatically.…So if I click this one, as you can see I'm already there playing my video.…You may have noticed that I clicked right down here to stop the video.…If I click again, it will play and you'll see these two icons, the Play triangle and…