In 2006, Time Magazine recognized "you," the Internet user as the person of the year because of the way "you" helped to shape how society uses technology today.
It's interesting to see how drastic the change in our dependence on technology has been over time. Walkmans and CD players were once popular technology gadgets, but now it seems like every kid wants an ipod to listen to their music. E-mails and telephone calls were once the standard way of keeping in touch with someone. Now, it's through social network sites, especially Facebook, Myspace and Twitter. Perhaps it's a lot easier to communicate virtually because it's an open-platform where not only can we reconnect with old friends, but we can also develop and maintain new relationships. Through these virtual sites, we can communicate with just about anyone anywhere anytime. However, this would be at the expense of our privacy, since any comments we make or any activities we do can be seen by everyone else on Facebook's "News Feed." In a sense, this makes us more vulnerable on cyberspace because all our actions are "stalked" by others.
Facebook is currently the third most viewed Web site in this country, making it more inevitable that the old traditional ways of keeping in touch with someone, such as emails and letters, will soon die out. This can be seen as both a positive and negative thing, but only society can dictate how virtual our world will be in the future.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/100515/Virtual-Interactive-Communication-A-Bicultural-Survey-Through-the-Lens-of-Web-20
^This Web site defines the term "Web 2.0" as an evolution of prior Internet activities or a significant change in Web usage. It also goes more into depth about Facebook, considered to be the "posterchild" of Web 2.0
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