The transition to Web 2.0 was a pretty big turning point in how people used the internet. Early web stuff was mostly passive – you just read information on static pages and that was it. With Web 2.0 the web became more of a read-write thing where participation was the whole point. Users could make profiles, publish content, comment on posts, join communities, and share media across platforms. These tools enabled many-to-many communication and basically created social networks. Web 2.0 made the internet social and interactive and collaborative in ways that didn’t exist before.
Today’s interactions go way beyond what early Web 2.0 people imagined though. While Web 2.0 was about open participation, current social platforms focus more on real-world relationships and personalized networks. Features now depend heavily on algorithms and mobile connectivity, which shape what users see and how they engage. Users expect everything to work seamlessly across devices, want instant communication, and participate in huge communities that kind of moderate themselves through user-generated content. At the same time there’s new problems – like privacy concerns and debates over whether digital content should be permanent or disappear after a while – that show how complicated the social web has become.
So basically Web 2.0 introduced interactive participation, but today’s internet builds on that with personalized, always-connected, and socially driven experiences. It’s constantly changing how people communicate online and sometimes in ways that aren’t always positive.