The way the web has changed us

For this blog, I am responding to a video about Web 2.0. I think the video was about how written text has changed with the internet and how it has changed us. It states that we will need to rethink everything because of the web and I think that is very true. For example, people just entering or who have already entered the workforce are affected. There are always new systems and programs for communication that we have to learn in order to do a job well. Those programs are advanced and often, employees need to be trained how to use it. Also the systems are updated almost annually so as soon as employees have mastered it, it changes. Architects have to deal with this because of design programs. We almost couldn't get a job without having experience in autocad or formz or rhino (all are advanced design programs) and each are updated often. Another way the workforce is affected is the new websites now available to distract us, such as myspace, facebook, blogger, or youtube. I could spend hours on these four sites alone, not considering the rest of the internet. These sites also illustrate the way the division of content and form has allowed us to easily put information on the web. I can put all my thoughts on blogger, find out what all my friends are doing, in college and out of college, on myspace and facebook, and then post and watch videos of the rest of the world on youtube, all within a click of a mouse. This easy access to information has also caused some problems. There are always fines lines between websites with accurate and true information and websites that have never been researched. Wikipedia is a user-built encyclopedia where normal people can add and change information. It is checked to make sure that the information is correct but it is not fast enough. One of my professors put false information on wikipedia and it wasn't discovered until months later. His false information was on display for everyone to "do research" with for months. I think that the web has also affected the us as people. We have much different views of morals, ethics, and privacy that we did just a generation before us. For example, you can learn a persons, name, address, police record, school background, and special achievements for money online. That's crazy!! The web has greatly affected us, in terms of communication and as people.