Yes, it is very sad that you-tube intends to commit suicide, as the social forum. It is impossible to find better word to describe what they intend to do finally on 3/7/2012 with designs of you-tube channels and have already done with the category "friends". But this is the choice of you-tube owners or the board of its directors, and they-all, surely, know why they are doing it and what for.
Печально, что ю-туб выбирает убийство самого себя как форума общения.Но владельцы-взрослые люди и, вероятно, знают почему и зачем они это делают.

Крайне неудобно, что при новой конфигурации туба изчезает не только список всех преыдущих членов группы "друзей" на канале при том, что конфгурация "контактов" до сих пор не заменяет "друзей", как было обещано, и вообще отсутствует на каналах, но и список всех предыдущих комментариев хранимых на канале. Прямо по Гамзатову "манькуртов" без памяти и без прошлого формирует теперь этот социальный форум общения.Ох, и велики же "достижения" современной демократии и свободы, не правда ли?

Nice Nushika9! You are awesome! :)

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But for beholders of this channel I want to emphasize that all of my videos from you-tube and even more, as I do not place every one of my videos here, are and would be available on my own web site. So, everybody, who is interested in my lessons in all areas of my competence and/or in the development of my own creativity in my videos with my live performances are welcome there. Coordinates, once again, are www.moscowtochicago.biz.

You-tube is also trying to apply to me the strange pressure, even not allowing me from time to time the access to my Inbox here and to my videos. I do not know what they are trying to achieve this way and why. And quite frankly I am not much interested in it.

Эта модернизация с "друзьями" на ю-тубе просто прелесть что такое. Прямо из известного советского анекдота, где один кролик говорит другому: "Зачем же теперь есть капусту, когда можно и, говорят, что нужно, есть друзей." Поздравляю и Брина и его кураторов-авторов "Патриотического Акта" с новым, даже более эффективным, изобретением в этой области.Изобрели это, правда, много тысячелетий назад... Ну, ничего! Спасибо за новое внедрение, лидеры мировой демократии!

I am subscribing to those, whose videos I am interested in. I am not spying on my friends, and this new you-tube action to create and activate the new internal spy net is disgusting. And supporting it, you-tube is showing the most unpleasant parts of its social activities. I do not like totalitarian regimes and political control even over all social network with all customers to be obliged to spy after each other. The interesting version of democracy, is it not?

It is also an intentional mess, as I want all my so named "contacts", according to current new terminology, to be mentioned on my channel. It should be so, as all of them are the official part of my channel. I am really not interested, if they are called "friends" or "contacts" but I do not want the history of my communications on you-tube to be senselessly mutilated. I would recommend you-tube service people to study experimental psychology somewhere else not on you-tube, if they want to save or even to increase the number of their customers.Outrageously stupid action is this renaming, is it not?I do not like idiots, please, stay clear!

You-tube is certainly violating privacy of its customers, forcing them to eliminate the category of "friends" and, instead, to stick noses in each other private lives on you tube, as being obliged to subscribe to former "friends" in order to be able to keep and to remember them. I-personally would drastically diminish my activities on you-tube because of this new policy. I am sure that other customers would do the same, as the violation of privacy isn't what people in general are appreciative about.