Week 9: It's a Web 2.0 World

The statement 2.0 implies an upgrade of the world wide web but technically that isn't so. In my opinion, moreover it points to the evolution and change of getting the end-user (aka us) more involved. My personal use of the Internet and place in the web culture community, as it is today, is that of being creative and well informed when communicating to not only my immediate friends but also those I acquire virtually. As said eloquently on Wikipedia, "Web 2.0 encapsulates the idea of inter connectivity and interactivity of web-delivered content." Today's Internet affords us more freedom, openness, participation, experience, creativity/personalization, and collective intelligence than ever before. I graduated from high school in 1993....imagine the force I may have been with this technology. Unfortunately the generation after have grown up with it all along and don't realize the invaluable resources right at their fingertips for the taking. If the library is to stay vital, we need to be interactive and interconnected with these and subsequent generations right at their literal fingertips.