In Finder Go menu, Home Folder is grayed out although visible in Sidebars. Why?!

Recently downloaded Yosemite. In Finder Go menu, Home is grayed out. Home is visible in sidebars and I can access my folders within Home folder but not in Go menu or by Cnt + Shift + H or via Command + Shift + Go. I tried sudo chflags nohidden in Terminal to no avail. (Also tried it /Home. I don't know for sure whether things changed with Yosemite but I have the problem now. (Also, using Utilities to repair permissions, there were many re printer and some others; not sure whether any had negative effect.) Any thoughts? THANKS!

Oh for goodness sakes Mark! The light bulb just flashed!!! hahaha
Thank you so very, very much. Now I understand. I am so not tekkie savvy & don't understand the lingo just yet.
Lucky I posted the link to the video, so that you could highlight were I was going wrong and thank you
for taking the time to look at it to help me out. BLESS YOU FOR BEING YOU!
Now, if you don't mind, perhaps you could solve the problem that made me think to change the media player in the first place.
I upgraded to ML and for some reason I had real problems viewing the youtube videos. And then I had problems with online movie streaming.
A real long story made short. I got rid of Perian bcos it's not ML friendly. And VLC, bcos Quicktime is suppose to do the job. (Or so I have read.)
I uninstalled & re-installed Adobe Reader & Flash, Flip4Mac, Quicktime Player (I uninstalled the X version, thinking it was the problem & stuck with the simple version).
The only extension I have now is the Ad Blocker.
So why do the youtube videos take forever to buffer, then always stall & won't continue playing. The online movie streaming works great now. But not the youtube videos.
Any suggestions? Should I reinstall the VLC, will that help?

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