Kathi Baldwin's List: Web2.0

Ask any teenager about their online experience, and while they may not know a detailed definition of the phrase "Web 2.0," they are certainly living it. An older generation may have hung out at the mall, but now youth depend on social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, and Bebo for socializing--which are actually just frameworks filled almost completely with user-created content. Gone are the days of passing around the photos albums at parties (boy, does that seem like a long time ago). Now, digital photos (user-generated content!) zip their way directly from cameras to photo sharing sites like Flickr and Ringo, where the posted comments (more user-generated content) by friends are as much a part of the experience as the photos themselves.