Technology and Community Building
It seems to me that 21st century technology is largely based off of creating community. Sites such as Facebook and MySpace exist mainly for the purpose of communicating with friends and maintaining social networks. The direction that almost all online technology seems to be moving in, is towards building community. Blogs create a community environment in which people can express their ideas and people can comment on them and create discussions. Sites such as flickr.com allow people to upload photos to share with the world and people have the ability to comment on them as well. Everything seems to be getting more personalized and people are beginning to share more aspects of their lives with the world. Interactivity and personalization work together to create the community feel. This is the current trend, and also the future of online content.