Community, Participation and Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is a community on the World Wide Web, with various websites where the public can share information and stories via videos, blogging and chat rooms on websites such as Facebook, Myspace and Youtube.
These are all websites where you can interact between different users online, you, the public are bassically the people that keep the website going.
However, lets not mistake Web 2.0 with the World Wide Web, Tim Barnes was originally the creator of the World Wide Web, but that doesn't mean the World Wide Web was our first interaction with the Internet. 'Mud and Moo' was a text based online virtual reality where people could interact.

Nowdays, we can access the web through devices that our constantly in our reach, such as mobile phones and laptops, where we can scan our Facebook pages regularly, updating our socail statuses, letting everyone know excatly what we are up too at all times. Now with Iphones we also have access to Apps which have a bigger impact on the sort of websites we can scan.
With websites such as Youtube people are able to upload home videos, talking about there concerns on issues, or just messing around. Alot of people that we see as "Famous" now would not have become celebrities without such websites as Youtube, for example, and new singer Lana Del Ray has just come on the scenes after uploading a selection of videos on youtube. I will upload two videos of hers, one from before and one recent video.

As you can see in the first video she had created it herself with various clips, but over time she has been seen on Youtube and is now on the uprise to become extremely globally famous.

Lets not forget the famous blogger Perez Hilton, who would deffinately not been known today without Web 2.0. Perez Hilton posts blogs online with critical celebrity gossip.

The way that Web 2.0 works is very clever, we, the public are the creators of the web pages, we upload the information and keep the website moving with new stories and fun activities, take Facebook for example, what would it be if we didn't post statuses constantly online?

The internet has become a community where everyone can now interact together at any time, good or bad, atleast now we can keep in contact with old friends and new friends. I am right now contributing to Web 2.0 by writing this blog.