Now, now I am seeing a sea change in the usage of the web. The ignorant end users like me, who could only see the end result of web sites developed by some techie soul has been open to me. I can express my dreams, my expectations, my experience and my feelings. Suddenly the internet was about ME! About the ignorant, non-existent soul who was always looking at some other person’s creation.

Now, I had the power, I had the power to change the content. I had the power to express my feelings and my expectations. I had the power to tell others how I feel, I had the strength to shout to the world about my way of thinking.

That was the stuff I was looking for. Internet was never a profession to me. I was always an end user, for whom internet was just a sort of entertainment, a time pass and a source of information. It was never a medium to express myself!

Web 2.0 has given me an opportunity to stand on my own legs. To express my views. To tell this world how I feel. To tell to myself what I am, what I can do.

From an internal network distribute documents inside a university the internet had grown to a web that helped the military brass to transmit the commands and the information. Still it meant nothing to me. Then it became something of an information supermarket where I could visit and get the things I saw, the stuff I saw there, the products some one offered me.

The Web 2.0 is a sort of world market where I am the Customer who is the king, I am asking what I want. I am no longer satisfied with what I get from those vendors. I want something specific and I DO have the voice to ask for what I want. That is what the Web has given me; my identity, my soul, my individuality which was always hidden inside me, the redundant stuff which was suppressed by the dominant traders who was in charge of the brigade.

Now its my hunting ground, the ball is in my court; I HAVE the power to ask what I really want, what I really need; I can express what I really feel, what I want to tell this world! Suddenly I am also SOMEONE of substance; some one who has got the soul! Someone who has got the integrity and individuality to express myself.

And that’s what the web 2.0 gave me! It has given me back myself. It has given me back my pride; my views; my point of view; my perception! AND I MEANS EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US! We have got the power! NOW its up to us to decide how we want to use this power! When the super heroes got the POWER they used it to transform the world! So WE have to decide. How do we want to bring up on a change in this world. How we want to shape up the next generation, the world where our children are going to live!

Stand up and Say what you feel, because WHAT YOU SAY MATTERS!