What I learned: All signs point to the future of the web becoming more and more socially interconnected. The article says that soon sites will automatically update your personal social accounts (facebook, twitter, ect.) with basic information. I learned that all technologies will begin taking advantage of the internet, and the begninning of this trend can already be seen in the internet-enabled tv craze that has recently started. I also learned about automatic location uploading and automatic alerts for your friends locations or other things of interest. To me this seems like the coolest thing that the future of the web may hold. To me, the idea that i could potentially walk into a city i had never been in before and immediately get ideas for places to eat and cool places to go sounds awesome.
Positive and Negative impacts: A negative impact is that as more and more people become interconnected, those that aren't will fall further and further out of sync with technology. If everything starts running off of your social accounts, anyone without a social account will lose more and more access to information. They will essentially have to get a facebook account to run their technology properly. For a positive impact, society will get drawn closer together. As more and more of peoples' personal information is shared automatically, it is going to be easier and easier to discover what everyone is doing. Another bonus is that people won't have to take the time to post updates, and they can focus on what they are doing, or they can find other people doing the same thing. If you decide to go to a football game, i would imagine that your phone could automatically upload your location to facebook, and according to the article it would also tell you if any of your contacts are also at the game, which would make meeting up with friends even easier.
How does this affect me and what i do on the web: Honestly for me, this isn't too big of an impact. I just barely got a facebook (about 4 weeks ago) and I haven't really gotten into the social media craze. I think that making everything automatically connect to facebook or twitter is a cool idea, but I don't care enough about facebook for it to matter to me. As for what I do on the web, if my computer wants to upload my music preferences or games that I have played, great. I spend much more time playing sports, doing homework, doing things with friends, or playing Xbox than I do on the internet. It won't really change what I do at all, at most it might get some people to play more games or go to todaysbigthing.com, but for me nothing will change.
Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0: As i understand it, Web 1.0 is essentially the ability to hyperlink websites. Also, Web 1.0 wasn't nearly as interactive as Web 2.0. Web 1.0 involved personal sites and a one-way flow of information. Web 2.0 is much more socially oriented. Web 2.0 characterizes the increase in flash and user-generated content. In Web 2.0 users also have the ability to be producers, like on blogs or facebook. A user can actively respond with others on facebook and can interact with the webpages. It seems like, to me at least, Web 2.0 is all about community sharing and responding, like youtube and facebook, and Web 1.0 was all about users reading or looking at sites created for them, but having to real way to interact within the site.
