2.0 Facebook

When it comes to Facebook, this social networking site seems to have grabbed the attention that it has because of what is available to its users. You can connect with way more people than you could in your everyday life. Just type in a name, and if you’re lucky you’ll find the person who you haven’t spoken to since grade one. You don’t need an email address or phone number, but now you can invite him/her to be on your Friends list, and maybe stay in touch.
It is interactive because you can write emails, share comments, or send out a mass of invitations to everyone on your list for a gathering or become part of a group which may reflect your values.Personally, I decline most of the invitations to join groups, games, or to accept gifts. I find that that’s just a whole lot of clutter.

2.0 Wikipedia

For this blogging assignment I tried to find something that Wikipedia hasn't covered in depth. I looked up Canadian Sign Language, and the result was: “Did you mean: catalan sign language,” which is Spanish. When broadening the search to ‘sign languages,’ it produced a list of many sign languages used around the world, but the Canadian version was not included. It does mention Canada when looking up American Sign Language, saying that ASL is dominant in the US and English-speaking Canada. From what I have learned, CSL is very similar to ASL, but not the same.

Although Wikipedia is not always a reliable source of information, it is a very helpful tool when wanting to obtain some very basic knowledge on a topic. It could provide related ideas and/or key words which would be useful when searching in the more credible resources.

2.0 Delicious

Considering the endless number of topics that we could encounter, Delicious is a fairly organized method of displaying them. However, improvements could probably be made. At first it is a rather confusing site to start working with; there's an overwhelming number of topics/tags to choose from. When creating a bookmark, a user has to choose a more commonly used word to make it findable. Interesting stuff could get lost or go unnoticed if a word becomes less popular, but maybe that's just how I'm seeing it right now.