5-Rachel Legge

Had it been part of Project 3 to remove one feature or element of the design of YouTube, I would have taken out the "necessity" of creating or having a gmail account in order to have a YouTube account.  This is one component of the website that I find unnecessary and annoying.  I understand that Google owns YouTube now, but that should not add prerequisites that a user must fulfill before being able to use or have an account.  Using the "Unnecessary Test" (who's name I find quite ironic) I determined that this feature does not directly contribute to the completion of the task, nor does it support a task that is vital to the activity that this application was designed to provide.  This feature is superfluous and should be either removed completely, or should be part of a short list of additional ways to create a user account.