I cannot say that email is dead for teenagers but it does seem that it is not used as often or for social communication as much as a teenager would use Facebook or Twitter. With the advancement of the social websites and 2.0 which is a more interactive arena. “Typically people use Twitter to discuss some of the mundane activities that they do during the day. You are simply answering the question: What are you doing?” according to our text. If a teenager has a group of their friends following them then they could potentially have a full conversation on twitter that is the past could have been done on email. The same is for Facebook, if a teenager is looking to have a more private conversation that can now be done my sending a direct message on a social website or using a chat messaging system.
I think that most teens see email use as used strictly for professional and educational uses not social. So yes in the sense of social emailing it can be considered dead.
The web 2.0 is not a new Internet. Is it the new name given to an emerging trend – participation? Instead of simply consuming information people are contributing and as a result, connecting to others in the process. If you had to make an educated guess, what might the web 3.0 be like? Why?
It is hard to imagine what web 3.0 would be like because web 2.0 is because there are so many options and different technology offered on web 2.0. The social and business networks offered on web 2.0 are described as “examples of Web 2.0 technology at its best“ so what can make it better. I would think the way that the communication is offered. We might be able to have live video conversations instead of typing our words. I am sure with technologies such as the cloud there are going to be so many more options on how to share information and post information which will only help advance the use of blogging and other web options. I am sure whatever the future holds for web 3.0 or even 2.0 will be great and useful because now that I am apart of 2.0 I cannot imagine not having it.
