If you were alive and young in the 80s should now be humming the Thompson Twins song "If I Was King For Just One Day". But, if I was LibrarySteve for just one day. I would do away with new account setups or leave it up to the individual to decide. I strongly feel that learning about web 2.0 is closely intertwined with learning about what people actually do with the tools, and using an account that was set up 10 minutes ago has absolutely no history of use. Its important to see how people customize the tools to fit their lifestyle. How many friends do they have on Facebook? What types of Photography do they take or types of images the collect on Flickr? What types of feeds do they subscribe to? What types of links do they choose to save? All of these things are important, but without the ability to view a users involvement over time with the tools, many of the subtle ways people use them are lost.
Take for example my SL avatar. My avatar took many months to develop, I had to explore SL endlessly and do lots of research. Did you know you could have virtual pets? Probably not, but now because you see my avatar does, you can see more possibilities in the tool. It also tells you more about me, which if I was wearing stock clothing, standing on Info Island you would have really learned nothing about me. Instead, you see me standing in a Bonsai garden, drinking coffee and hanging out with my virtual poodle. Which tells you a lot more about me as an individual. Thats what I feel web 2.0 is really about, leaning about people as individuals and how that impacts the whole community. Web 2.0 allows you to look into once closed off areas of peoples lives, and gives you a view into their personal and professional lives. It brings people together based on commonalities and shared interests. This is something that is the essence of what Web 2.0 is about and you just can't get that from an account that has only been setup for a week. That's my two cents. Now, I can go back to being myself, which unfortunately means I have a final project to produce! Can I go back to being LibrarySteve again? PLEASE.
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"You know that love is
All we need to get us through"
I LOVE the Thompson Twins.
Also, I like your idea of not having to set up separate accounts for tools you are already using, partly because of the reasons you mention and partly because I am lazy....
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