WHAT IS WEB 2.0?
To me, when I hear the term "Web 2.0" a few things come to mind: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, social media in general, and smart phones. All of these things virtually connect individuals around the world, allowing us to interact. We have the power to post whatever we want, whenever we want. Web 2.0 has opened the door for new relationships along with new information. However, since everyone does have the power to post whatever we want, that doesn't mean that everything on the web is right or true. We must be careful and mindful while taking advantage of this dissemination of information.
WHERE IS IT GOING?
For as long as technology is evolving, Web 2.0 will be right there adapting along with it. The way we connect and get our information is expanding and changing at a fast rate- and to be totally honest, it's changing so fast that by the time I try to even guess what's next, it'll have already happened.
DOES IT LIVE UP TO THE HYPE?
We can take pictures on our smart phones, upload them to Facebook (in a shorter time than it even took to get everyone to smile for the picture), tag everyone in the picture, and then comment back and forth with each other about how ugly we all look. We can post our resume on LinkedIn, connect with professionals around the world and land a job interview. So does Web 2.0 live up to the hype? I think yes. The endless opportunities that the web holds for us is unfathomable. Some people might take the Internet today for granted, while others might take advantage of it... either way, there's no ignoring it or stopping it.
SOCIAL MEDIA & WEB 2.0
One of the newest and biggest things to come out of Web 2.0 is social media. In an article written in the year 2009 on Mashable.com, it shows the emergence of the once foreign term, 'social media' compared to the term Web 2.0; social media overtook the term Web 2.0 for the first time in December 2009. The article predicted that in 2010, "social media is not going to look back as it rapidly becomes a mainstream term." They were right. An article from examiner.com on August 26, 2012 (the day before the start of the 2012 Republican National Convention) looks at how social media will "take the stage" at both this year's Republican and Democratic Conventions, the same way it did at the 2012 London Summer Olympics. For the 2008 Presidential Election and the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, the term 'social media' or 'Twitter', although they existed, weren't even household names yet.
An article from the Huffington Post highlights the "death and life" of social media, ever since Facebook and Groupon stock prices have dropped recently, some media outlets have predicted the downfall of social media, but author Michael Moynihan of the Huffington post argues,"The dynamics of the social media platforms along with Web 2.0 have replaced the TV. We now all live in a digital media eco-system where tablet, smartphone and laptop users are becoming more and more responsible for the increases in TV ratings and public opinion." -Gloria Buono-Daly, examiner.com
"Social media or Web 2.0, much Web 1.0 was in 2001, is if anything, only expanding."Social media has a way of keeping people so connected but so far apart at the same time; this new phenomenon will be around for as long as people want to continue to keep in touch and share with one another.
This is truly a strong piece about web 2.0 and how social media has been apart of it. I like how you pointed out a few of the more popular social media sites out there, it makes it easier to connect to my own personal thoughts about web 2.0. Though I believe there is bit more to the entire concept of web 2.0, I think that you have a strong grasp around the social media part of how it has ultimately affect everyone in the world. Under the sub-heading, “Does it live up to the hype,” I would say I would have to agree with what you’ve had to say, for the reasons that you gave and many more. It is absolutely amazing to see all of the advancements that have come from web 2.0, with social media in the mix of that.
ReplyDeleteThe two articles that you have posted along with yours offer a great reading material about the subject of Web 2.0 and social media. Though I was only able to scrim through each of these articles very briefly, there was a lot of useful content that I found inside of them. I feel that I was able to get some information from this post that I didn’t know myself.
Just looking at the posts I love the format. The post was broken up into categories so that the reader can visually know what is going to be disused in each section. When describing what the new form of web actually is, she uses examples instead of dictionary terms. Examples quickly allowed me to relate with the topic that was being labeled. I also noted that after Katie listed several topic points earlier in the blog posts and explained it in more detail. This kept the post flowing, keeping me interested and informed. The fact that web 2.0 has more user interactive sites is something that should have been stressed more throughout the blog. It seems the concept of interaction was integrated when the comparison from social media to web 2.0 was made, but it should have been stressed more separately. I do agree with a lot of the information given but it did get a little boring with the incorporation of the text from the websites she researched. Overall I feel the post was informational and a great read for anyone looking for information about the topic.
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