Web 2.0

More than 400 million active users
50% of active users log on to Facebook in any given day
Average user has 130 friends
People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook
There are over 160 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups and events)
Average user is connected to 60 pages, groups and events
Average user creates 70 pieces of content each month
More than 25 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes,
photo albums, etc.) shared each month.

By reading the above, I have come to the conclusion that the world never sleeps!!  We are all so engage in our virtual lives.  When sitting browsing through Facebook, posting photos, commenting on peoples posts, it has never occurred to me that over 400 million people are doing the same.  Does this not show how powerful Web 2.0 is...?  In a way i find it quite daunting, that something can control our lives in such a way.  I saw a television programme once that was talking about social networking sites and how they effect the path our lives take.  There are certain people, that our life did not intend for us to keep in touch with, people who we are meant to leave behind to progress in our future.  I found this very interesting and when I actually looked at my friends list on Facebook, I had many friends who I hadn't even really spoke to in school, yet they were commenting on my status's and photos.  Is this not a little weird?

Something that did catch my eye in the Professional Communication Technology reader was 'Tim O'Reily's meme'.  By analyzing this it made me think deeper about the web 2.0 tools I use in everyday life, and showed me the deeper meaning of these tools and how they effect us.  I also like the idea that web 2.0 tools 'reduces barriers by making participation cheap, easy and quick', (Hamilton, 2000).  I find this to be true, you can build a whole business through participating in the communication of web 2.0.   'Ullrich et al.(2008)' uses the term 'architecture of assembly', everything we do to build on these tools, helps them to develop and evolve.  We are able to create our own methods of production and don't have to rely on other sources to do it for us.

I think I will come back to this, with more comments as I start to analyze the way i use Web 2.0 more.  I'm no longer just going to post, I will be thinking constantly about the effect the posts i write will have on the community that are able to see it.