Have fun watching YouTube videos in sync with your friends

Spending time watching YouTube videos with friends is a great fun. But what if your YouTube-loving comrades live halfway across the country, well there’s still a way to enjoy those funny videos together.

ShareTube, a free and easy to use web platform, doesn’t require signing up for anything, and you can create a queue that any of your friends can add to, as well as search for videos right from the ShareTube interface.

So, without further ado, heading on to the main part of telling you a step-by-step guide to watching YouTube together…..

Step 1 : Head to ShareTube’s home(http://sharetube.io/#menu).

Step 2 : Type in a name for your “room” and then click the “Make a Room” button.

Step 3 : On the next screen, type a username and hit Enter on your keyboard.

 

Once you have done that you can invite users by clicking on the Facebook or Twitter icons on the top right. In addition to that there are other ways of getting friends in the room which are shown below. You can also just look at the url of the room in your address bar and text it to friends or just tell them to go to sharetube.io and give them your room name to enter.

When your friends get the link and join the room, the action can begin. You can search for YouTube videos or paste in the YouTube video’s link if you know it. The first video automatically begins playing. You can continue to search and add YouTube videos to the queue even while the current video is playing. 

Your video queue appears on the left. If you want to switch to another video in your queue just click on it and it will open. There is also a Thumb icon which people in the room can click on to like the video. 

There’s also a chat function on the right side where you can add in your reactions and chat with your friends as the YouTube video is playing. All chats message will go in here and notifications of when people have joined and left the room will appear here.

 

If you’d rather have video chat capabilities, there’s a service named Gaze that is similar to ShareTube, but also lets you video chat with your friends while you watch a YouTube video. However, Gaze doesn’t let you search for videos within the interface, nor does it let you create a queue.