Social Networking Tools
The emergence of social networking tools will have an impact on the world by shifting the illusions of individual perceptions on how we as a society will learn together. In the current world we have been taught that there are no consequences for our actions and that it is acceptable to displace blame. We have been taught to break apart our problems and the results have become a fragmented world. Web 2.0 has given individuals the ability to expand the capacity to create new patterns of thinking that are nurtured in collaborative learning. What fundamentally distinguishes Web 2.0 from traditional Web 1.0 read only web is the potential to expand collaboratively on basic disciplines.
Today a new age is evolving, a newly formed conceptual age; an age and time when people collaborate to expand disciplines. A discipline is a developmental path for acquiring certain skills or competencies. In the past we have individually mastered our own proficiencies as we explored our world from one perspective, our own. Now with collaboration technologies individuals are enlightened by becoming aware of individual perspective by exposing ones own knowledge to the outside world. Being myopic with a bit of stigmatism is not a bad way to view the world as it provides a benchmark to an individual’s singular perception. A perception as it is seen through a shattered mirror. The fragmentation of the mirror is in the reflection and how the pieces fit together is in the collaboration of shared thoughts by others. It is in the shared thoughts that our vision clears which makes Web 2.0 both a telescope for new ideas and a microscope for harvesting knowledge.
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