Web 2.0 - Jesse Steinberg

After reading "Life After Web 2.0," I wonder what could make the Internet more creative and innovative, like nothing we've seen before? There are already ways of showcasing your life, expressing your thoughts and opinions through text, audio, and/or video, and learning new things. People share their most personal information on social media sites such as FaceBook, MySpace, and even Youtube in some ways. These platforms let users interact with each other, like nothing before, and it doesn't seem like it's going to stop anytime soon. With all of these tools at our disposal, it's not too hard for users to create their own content. Though, most of the time, this content is not entirely original. Users mostly modify the original content to fit their own needs. This is seen all over the place. It seems as though people are willing to put their whole life online: where they're from, likes/dislikes, friends, family, where they go to school, pictures of them, etc. People aren't afraid to do this, and you'd think with identity theft looming out there, there would be more precautions taken. There are an infinite number of ways to do whatever it is you want to do, and more: blog, make a music video, make a slide show of pictures, comment on pictures, invite friends to play games, buy DVDs, etc. The list can go on and on, and because of this, Web 2.0 is going to be here for the foreseeable future.