YouTube has begun warning users that they will soon be required to login with a Google account, instead of their old YouTube accounts. Just as people freaked out when Flickr changed the locks on the doors and required a Yahoo account to get in, you can bet that this is going to make some people very angry. User generated content communities tend to have a very particular culture. If and when they get bought out, all kinds of issues arise around cultural differences and control. Seldom is this as clear as when old logins at a site are no longer accepted and users are required to get an account with the big powerful company that bought the community. Sponsor Chris Messina caught a screenshot today of a logged-in page at YouTube with the message: “Please start signing in with your Google password from now on. Pretty soon we will be phasing out support for signing in with your old YouTube password.” Pretty simple! We’ll see if that warning ahead of time is helpful in calming the likely outrage by some users

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