Essay#3draft

Rebekah Macias

Professor Huey

23 November 2009

English 155

Hidden World of Facebook

In “insert article title”, Williams talks about a “Web 1.0”, which refers to how the internet originally was when it first came out, you could research information and that was it. Then Johnson talks about “Web 2.0” and how now you can not only research information, but you can also post information for others to read and communicate with others more freely. Johnson’s argument said that Web2.0 was better because you have more freedom and more choices on the Internet. Williams’ argument says that Web 2.0 was not better because some people take the freedom too far, post gossip and wrong information, and they can scan over information and news and become ignorant to what’s happening around them. People ignore what they don’t want to read about because they are narrow-minded and biased. To a certain extent, Williams is correct because even though we do have infinite access to the world, we ignore what we don’t want to hear and get stuck in our own little world catering to our own individual self.

Williams statement is most certainly valid and is constantly proving itself. One example is a particular group on Facebook called, “Petition to Get Facebook to Recognize ASL as a Language!!”