Is web 2.0 really none of your business?
November 23, 2009
With your homework beside you, and your computer next to you, it’s hard not to get stuck in the crazy web 2.0 world. Time writes in the article ”Time’s Person of the Year: You” that it was the year of 2006 the web 2.0 explode. From being a place where the scientists shared their research to become a web which is some sort of aid to bring people together and making them matter. They call this a revolution. Is it possible not being a part of this?
Ten years ago, people were sitting in front of the TV, of course it’s some kind of revolution that we now, instead of watching made-up stories, can be on the internet and find out everything we could ever imagine about our neighbours, friends and even people we only met once at a party. With the help of Facebook, MySpace and Google a hole new world opens up and with that, even new problems get birth. In the article “Facebook dumbing friendship down?” they are writing about how Facebook have changed the definition of “friend”. On Facebook you can have for example 500 “friends” and the most of them are probably a friend to a friend to your best friend. They compare this situation with a pre-school class where everyone is friends just because of the fact that they are in the same class and they are supposed to have friends.
With web 2.0 there are a millions of possibilities, and also millions of disadvantages. While you are trying to figure out whether to accept a friend request, or trying to find out the latest about your “met once at a party-friend”, it’s easy to forget that there is a real world outside your computer. I can see a big problem with the fact that you can know almost everything about a person with the help of web 2.0 and when you meet this person you don’t even say hello! That makes me wonder if the future will be on the internet with our laptops in our knees, instead of meeting people in real life. There are also persons who are taking a big distance to the web, but still you can never know what people put out on the web, so in one way or another, it’s impossible not being a part of web 2.0, so welcome, whether you want it or not.
November 27, 2009 at 10:47 am
I don’t believe in social networking as a substitute for our real lives, I think it’s more like a tool for us to keep a big network of people we met. You never know when you could have any advantages of knowing them.
November 28, 2009 at 6:21 pm
I agree with Kim. Social networking on the Internet should not be a substitute for “real lives” or social networking AFK (away from keyboard). It should be a complement. Personally, I think that social networking on the Internet improves my “real life”, and the other way round. So I don’t see a future where the Internet has replaced “real life” relationships. We need to have both.
November 29, 2009 at 8:47 pm
One of the first questions in your article: Is it possible to not be part of this? No, is my answer! In some time of another all peolpe will be forced to join by friends! Events are no longer created in other ways than Facebook! I also agree with Kim, Internet should not be a substitute for real lives! But like Carolina said it does improve real life! Well done Emma!