Week 5 Lecture

UGH PLEASE LEAVE INTERNET HISTORY BURIED! Seriously roflcopter and lollerskates are cringe worthy when you think of it so many years later!

I've already expressed my opinions on web 2.0 (and yes the irony isn't wasted on me that I'm bitching about web 2.0 in a web 2.0 format) so this will be more of a summary of the lecture than repeating myself about how much I hate this kinda crap.

The lecture went into detail on how stupid early internet endeavors were and how every body loved to drop their original plans and jump onto the bandwagon that lead to many brand new companies being formed and instantly becoming bankrupt two minutes later. Not only this but the apparent 'zillion' authors that jumped on this bandwagon and started to theorize about the internet and how it worked on a social medium (rather than an actual technological medium) which brought about the idea of 'webs of relationships' which can be seen in real life relationships. But instead of being friends with people you know at school who have friends at another school which know your brother that know you that know your room mates best frie-you get the idea. You have a massive web of relationships building over the entire world. Forums are a great example of this.

The other point was the whole lack of real identity on the internet... which brings to me to a quite disturbing (BUT HILARIOUS) link where a boy pretended to be a girl on facebook and blackmailed a ton of boys at his school who called him gay and ended up raping them (wait what).

The other step taken by Web 2.0 took the internet into the opposite direction it had originally where instead of talking to people from around the world, most conversations partaken by people who use the internet are done talking to people you've actually met. Not to mention this entire thing has become an actual business which is where the whole idea of 'Social Media' comes from.

Like I said earlier in another post, it's just a bandwagon businesses are now jumping on. Except this time it's actually working.