How To Watch YouTube videos With Friends in Real-time

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Streaming online video is a pastime for a lot of us. According to our mood, we stream videos of various genres from humorous to educational. At times we like a certain video and want our friends to watch it to. One way to do this is by copying the URL of that video’s page and sharing the URL with our contacts. With the increasing popularity of Facebook and other online social networks, we most video hosting sites like YouTube have a Facebook-share feature built into them.

But how about wanting to know how your friends react to the video as they watch it? Perhaps you can do this with one friend by asking him/her to watch the video and hold a live chat with him/her at the same time. But what if the number of friends is more than one? Suppose you are watching a movie online (via streaming) and you want to watch the movie as a group with the only problem being that you and your friends only have an internet connection joining each other. You might not be able to think of any way that is possible.

However with Synchtube that group-online-movie-watching experience is entirely possible and easy.

Synchtube is a free website which lets user create rooms where we can send invitations to friends and select a video to be seen by all group members together.

At the bottom of the site’s homepage we see an area where we paste the URL of the video’s page. After doing this we click CREATE ROOM.

Our video will start playing in window similar to the image below:

In the top right we can see the URL of this page which we can share with other people we want to watch the video with.

When another user starts watching the video, a new status bar is added at the bottom left of our window where we can see the progress of each video along with the name of each user watching the video:

To make this service a bit more interesting there is a Live chat facility available can be found at the right side of the page. Synchtube offers a great way to watch video with your friends. It can also be used as a strong educational and instructional tool for a group of students.

These kinds of websites are something the internet could use more of.

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