Brave new world
Maybe you've heard. Maybe you haven't.
The internet is a different place nowadays. It's become collaborative, social, participatory. The term "Web 2.0" has been used to describe this new milieu.
The lines between online and offline life is blurring.
Example: I'm sitting in lecture. The presenter mentions a disease I've never heard of. I Google it on my laptop. I find a cool website and a pdf paper. Someone behind me taps my shoulder, so I forward both these things to his email. While in my email, I notice someone has written on my wall. I learn that plans for the weekend have changed, so I change my tickets online. The friend sitting in front of me has "poked" me virtually. I poke her twice. Once online, and once again in the back.
Online/offline/online. It's become a fluid thing. We no longer have "online" lives and "real" lives. It has all become one.
I think there is a perception that things "online" don't happen at all. But they do. It's all just human interaction. It's all REAL.
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