Potential of Web 2.0 and Human Behaviour

While playing a highly addictive game in Facebook, it confirms what I have thinking about the potentials of Web 2.0 applications. I think this new generation of applications basically satisfy the needs of human beings to share our stories (satisfying a powerful need to create meanings in our lives which give us our identities as a person), to connect with others with our stories (thus forming a community that fills the void in us to belong) and to learn and grow from these activities which again fulfills our strongest desire to find meanings in our lives and grow as a human being. When technology is able to meet the core necessities and desire of the human pysche, it will mushroom beyond the designers' wildest dreams. If only education caters for such needs!