Hulu, Dream Come True

In this modern day and age, there are over a hundred million websites.  Yes, actually more than the dozen or so you visit every day.  It might seem like to us that there is only Facebook and YouTube, and that we are so stapled down to these two when we procrastinate on our homework.  Want to avoid that American Literature essay?  Go on Facebook!  Not sure whether you’re ready to start that Biology project?  Watch every Muse music video you can find on YouTube until your retinas are burning off!

This is all fine and dandy, but you may find that nobody is on Facebook or that bogus copyright laws have removed all but a few Muse music videos from YouTube.  The fact that these activities have expired themselves is not encouraging you to complete your work anymore than it was before, right? Behold Hulu.

Hulu is a website featuring extensive streaming video of TV shows and movies from the biggest networks.  It epitomizes convenience; there’s no four-minute commercial to sit through every ten minutes. There are only a few commercial breaks that are just 30 seconds or one longer commercial. But it’s shorter than the average commercial break of a TV show and it’s only at the beginning of the video with none following.

The biggest plus about Hulu is that it’s completely legal.  You can log onto www.hulu.com without the fear of a virus infecting your computer every time you click something or that somebody in the federal government knows you’re watching television online.  Networks and companies are working together to bring you these shows and movies, so you can watch, relax, and enjoy.

Taking all of this into account, Hulu embodies the best procrastination tool ever.  It’s convenient, easy, free, legal, and you can waste away as much of your time as you want.  Watch a 30-second clip of Stewie from “Family Guy” calling Lois’s name (the infamous clip: over ten and a half million views on YouTube), or a 22-minute episode of the latest installment of “The Office”.

At this point, this must seem pretty horrible.  Procrastination has been a fundamental pariah of your personality because of the fact that you can’t rid yourself of it, and here I am showing you an easier and more entertaining way to do it.

Before you laugh Hulu off, consider how many hours a week you waste watching TV, on TV.  It’s Monday night, and you have a huge load of bookwork due for Spanish the next day.  You would’ve done it during the weekend, except your teacher assigned it Monday, giving you only one day to do it. This is a pretty common predicament for most of us.  The conundrum tying up the predicament is that by the time you get home from basketball practice, shower, and eat, it’s just about 7PM and “Heroes” is on TV!  You have the choice of watching it, doing all of your homework into the night and getting a less than optimal amount of sleep.  Or, you could skip “Heroes”, do all of your homework and get a good night’s sleep.  The choice to skip the show is possible because you can go on Hulu anytime after it airs on TV and watch it there!

These contradictory arguments are compatible with both sides of the spectrum, meaning Hulu pleases everybody.  However, there are rumors Hulu will start charging for some of its completely free streaming video.  Also, some episodes of high demand shows like “Glee” expire after a certain amount of time.  So hurry up and fall in love with Hulu the way I did.  And use it as you please, whether or not you’re procrastinating.

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