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Jasmine Najar
Web 2.0 is Valuable
Internet is a very fast growing technology. Once a big machine with only a black and green screen, now smaller then ever. As small as a portable phone that weights in at less then 3 pounds. Today the world focuses on what pleases the individual by making everything customized to who they are. There are two articles that point out if this fast growing technology of Web 2.0 is a great thing for people to have. First is Steven Johnson writer of It’s all about Us. Johnson believes that Web 2.0 has been a great way for people to find things of interest online. With him launching a Web company Johnson expresses how much the company has grown because people blog on their page things the they think are important. Giving the people a chance at freedom of speech. Second is Brian Williams writer of Enough about You. Williams writes about Web 2.0 not being such a great thing for people to continue to have. Since so many people are already focusing on what they want to do everyday, Williams expresses how Web 2.0 continues to add to people being tuned out to what’s really going on in the world. Williams believes that people don’t pay enough attention to what the world is going through. Both writers have great points made in their articles but Johnson has a stronger claim then does Williams. For one: people may be focused on what they want to hear or see, but reality is that the majority of people always know what’s going on in the world. Second: if it wasn’t for Web 2.0 then people wouldn’t have the freedom to write topics of interest that inform others. Although Williams is right about people having too much to do with themselves, Johnson makes it clear that people need Web 2.0 for knowledge of their surrounding, have the freedom to blog about what they want, and find things that are of interest to them.
Web 2.0 is a great way to stay connected to what is going on in the world. Majority of this world people live in may be consumed with what each person wants to hear or listen to but this includes everyone. Everyone does what they want to do and everyone has some kind of an interest in what’s going on today. While doing some research for a topic that had to include something off of Web 2.0 a new product was discovered off the Web. It was a sustainable product made to better our environment. Something that caught peoples attention when finding out that they were destroying the plant. When people find this information alarming people automatically want to fix it, correct? Well this one product helps everyone to better the environment. What’s the big deal? Well people/ buyers would have not found this product if it wasn’t for Web 2.0 and it’s bloggers. Just like Johnson says, “But without that extraordinary wave of place logging, we’d have nothing to work with”. With this information Williams claim that people are not looking at what’s going on in today’s world is out beat by Johnsons claim.
This new and improved product that was found on the Web is called a Skoy. “ a fabulous, absorbent, biodegradable and natural multi-use cloth”(par 1). This product is made to help prevent the use of so many paper towels in America! It last for a little over a year and is very affordable for the common man on earth. Did you know that the “USA generates 250 million tons of trash per year, of which around 34% is paper. That is 85 million tons of paper waste per year!” Skoy provides Americans with the statistics of just how much there product works which helps everyone out a whole lot more because they get to see exactly how it saves the environment. With a product like this we can definitely make this Earth a better planet to live on.
Now that Web 2.0 is consumed with bloggers that inform the world about different topics it has allowed our communities to be more informed. More informed with the daily issues happening around the world, countries, state’s, cities, and neighborhoods. So many students go onto the internet daily even more then once a day. As for reasons to why people go on some many times is unsure, but posting topics of interest is usually the first thing people may do. What’s even better is all the information given from people who share the interest of topic adding to the conversation. Peter Magolda and J. Platt Glenn writers of Untangling Web 2.0's influences on student learning wrote about what they see Web 2.0 doing for students lives and lives of others. “Easy and cost-effective access to Web 2.0 technologies enhances learning. Shrinking budgets and historical reliance on expertise from information technology staff complicate efforts to deploy new software applications.”(pag 13). This clearly states that the Web does have a strong effect on people, simply because it has an importance in life. Not just a few but everyone. Especially students who are in college.
Since college students have the biggest say so in what Web 2.0 really does for them, majority of students will tell you exactly how it helps during research. The biggest reason students visit Web 2.0 is because of research needed for class, or essays. While doing a research project for a design class it was asked of students to find a new product of interest to present to the class. There was one product found was a new product made to save the environment. Without Web 2.0 no one would have found this product because it wasn’t well known of a product. Web 2.0 gave it that chance of making their product known, allowing other people to find their webpage so people could buy the product and save the environment. While on the Webpage of Skoy, there are many blogger comments, news articles, videos, radio interviews and more. This just proves that this green product has continued to grow and grow because of happy customers wanting to spread the news on the Web. The owners of the product don’t ever speak about how their company continues to grow but they do mention that “We have been working and researching for almost a year on our product”. Clearly they needed Web 2.0 themselves to make their dream product come to life. In the end Web 2.0 has a huge impact on everyone in the world. It helps them to complete so many things in school and in life. Johnson’s claim continues to shine of Williams claim simply because there is more evidence to prove how important the Web really is to people.