The Way of the Future
Last year, in Online Journalism class with Wayne MacPhail I remember being asked similar questions about the future of Web 2.0. My thoughts haven’t really changed, social networking sites and Web 2.0 probably are the way of the future.
When I first learned of Facebook, I had already used my Myspace for about a year and I didn’t see the point of registering to another site. However, I quickly saw that none of my friends were even using their Myspace’s anymore so I joined Facebook and check it daily. Having a Facebook was exciting at first but even now I have considered getting rid of it since I would prefer to have a conversation with someone over the phone or face to face, but then I remembered how much time I’m actually able to kill on that site.
Recently, I have been introduced to Digg, Twitter and re-introduced to del.icio.us. I remember after using del.icio.us last year in class, I remember thinking that it was the most useful of the Social Networking sites. Yet, I still didn’t end up using it after the course was finished. Maybe now that a year has passed, I’ll have more fun with it.
I hadn’t heard of Digg before this class, but I’ve talked to a few people about it outside of class and they said they use it frequently, so I plan on keeping an open mind.
I don’t think I’m in the minority in my thinking that Twitter isn’t going to help that much, and I probably won’t use it at the end of this class. But then again, I’ve been following the U.S Presidential Primaries closely and it’s actually pretty cool how Twitter was used to follow all of the intense action on Super Tuesday. It wouldn’t be the way I would follow, but I could see how it works for some people.
Maybe I missed a lot of Web 2.0 action in the past few years, but in the next few weeks I plan on giving it more of a chance and maybe I’ll become a Web 2.0 freak by the end of the course.
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