The Redemption of the World Wide Web

The Redemption of the World Wide Web

There really is a revolution under way - in what the Internet is and how it works. And as a 50+ guy, I came close to deciding just to sit this one out. Do you know what I mean? 

In my life I've either decided to participate in some previous 'revolutions' or not, revolutions in technology, science, politics, psychology, etc etc. 

In truth, I've regretted being slow to adapt for some (it took me until my 40's to realize that it was ok for boys to cry), and have entirely missed others (my boat motor at the summer place is still a very noisy, very polluting two-stroke antique).

The Internet is undergoing a revolution: it’s forsaking its machine-like quality;  it's taking a human face. It's experiencing its redemption.  

And what’s driving this is called Social Media, or aptly “Web 2.0”, meaning let’s fix what didn’t work and re-write this program.

Here’s what’s happening.

“Social Networking is what its called.  Here’s how it works, and here’s how it’s providing redemption to the world wide web.

In the world of social networking, REAL people, just like you and me, have direct conversations with other real people.

Based on some VALUE that’s exchanged, these two people develop a degree of relationship.  As people.

And based on that relationship as people, they might choose, just like in real live, to go on to engage in a business together.

This is the way the world of commerce has worked since the dusty bazaars of traders and merchants to the time of small town or local neighborhood merchants.  Business with people you know as people.

The world wide web has never before provided that. Rather, it’s been a land of smoke and mirrors, where any web-savvy web designer in a college dorm could represent herself on the Web as a General Motors (no – bad example, but you know what I mean).

The web is going personal.  And this is it’s redemption.

So – to the other over-50’s out there, (and under 50 Luddites too) don’t resist this development.  It’s a good one. Your freedoms won’t get eaten up. You will learn how you NEVER need to expose more information about yourself than you choose to. And you might even come to appreciate that the new level of transparency that the younger generation accept as the norm is not all a bad thing.

Bottom line – Don’t miss this one!