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Identify something that you think best demonstrates Web 2.0 and Explain why.

Facebook best demonstrates Web 2.0 because it is a social networking site which makes use of a participation platform. People contribute and participate in communicating and joining online communities. People can communicate to each other or to multiple people at a time. Users of computers are what drive Web 2.0 because there is no central control. Anyone who has access to the internet in any part of the world may communicate with others at any point and time. There is little to no organization of how people share information and communicate with one another. If people share a common interest they may blog about it, create a group advocating it and people with similar interests will comment on the blog or join the group. All these activities may happen instantaneously all over these networks. Friends can keep track of their peers activities, jobs they've had, and other personal information. Pictures are shared on Facebook as well, where peers can make comments and post up their own as well. A person can find out what's been going on in another person's life just through reading their wall or statuses.

Through sites such as Facebook, communities are being formed for collective interests, behaviour, and common characteristics. Web 2.0 is data-driven, the more data being put on the web, the more knowledge and information is being spread to numerous sources. Facebook is also very easy to use and have access to which is a characteristic of Web 2.0 as well, as long as you have internet, you may access Facebook. Facebook is now literate in multiple languages as well which makes even more accessible globally. Web 2.0 is not controlled or have a central organization that limits to what information you may access. It isn't an information source where you just read and that is what your told. Web 2.0 encourages users to participate and to question and have an opinion to what is being put on the internet. Bloggers invite readers to take a step into their world. People who advocate invite people to join their cause. By putting information on Facebook, people are inviting people to part of their world. By leaving comments and sharing information, users participate in shaping Web 2.0.