My name is Brian and I'm very spontaneous When I thought of naming this blog I literally hit "random article" on wikipedia twice and viola, my blog has it's name. I found it very appropriate that I would use wikipedia to label this blog, a blog that exist to discuss my personal views on social media and Web 2.0 technologies. I find it astounding the amount of information we have available through the internet, and not just for study, but the personal diaries and general database of humanity. I am old enough to know how far along social media has evolved and I personally accept and promote it. However, I am known to be an extrovert and have been found guilty on multiple occasions of loving attention, so yes I am bias.
We are so much more powerful now thanks to the advancements in social media and "web 2.0. Sound weird? Well, let me explain: Imagine you were a big stupid jerk, and you really wanted to offend two hundred people in a single day. Let's also add that you are not famous in any way, nor have access to television feeds. How impossible would this task be in 1995? Now, how easy is this to do tomorrow? I personally have over 700 friends on my Facebook, and if I really wanted to offend 200 of them, I could do it in under a minute. We have gained an ability to be looked at, I prefer to use it to promote my projects and crafts instead of pissing off hundreds of people, but sometimes that happens if I drank enough scotch.
Consider the following: If we had to describe to a person living in 1950 our advancements in technology today, it would sound like this: "I possess in my pocket a device that links me to a network of endless and ever-engrossing information, I have the ability to learn anything I please and share with the world my ideas and creations. And yet, I use it to look up funny pictures of cats and have pointless arguments with people I will never meet."
