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You read right. Web 22.0. Not web 3.0 or web 9.0 or even web 21.0 (all passé…google them) but Web 22.0. You heard it here first.

More about Web 22.0 below…but here’s the set-up first.

I tweeted yesterday, quite innocently, if I may add

‘ Steve Jobs is already working on a better version of you.’

I expected the tweet to go unnoticed since hootsuites magnificent metrics measured my Klout at a bottom scraping 10.

Not to be.

‘@Rawkreative Already standing in line RT @jacobvar: Steve Jobs is already working on a better version of you.’

I already knew that- Facebook had checked him in. I had to warn @rawkreative  that things were going to get worse.

‘ be careful, Zuckerberg has hidden the privacy settings on it.’ I subtly twitformed him.

However as a matter of public interest it’s my duty to divulge more in this blog post.

Steve has decided to name that better version of you ‘Web 22.0‘. Holding the iphone correctly is only one of the things that better version of you (called Web 22.0) will be capable of.

Don’t be alarmed. All the ‘social media marketing consultants’ that matter have already written blog posts (not in public domain yet) about how you should behave as Web 22.0.

It’s all laid out for you. Web 22.0 will be your adulthood, its been decided conclusively, you will have an infinitely better existence as Web 22.0.

What is not sure is if the Google, Verizon duo will love you- Web 22.0, on broadband as much as on wireless. Zuckerberg has decided to love you regardless, since you keep no secrets from him. You will be ‘public domain’.

Have any ideas on how Web 22.0 should be? Please feel free to comment or simply open up a wiki page on it and inform me. We can probably have inconsequential but serious deliberations. We can, at the least, laugh at our digitally recorded foolish notions when we finally become what we can be…Web 22.0!.

‘The guy again on my FB friends box!’ thought Kyra. His profile pic, his shoulder and his kids names tattooed on it.

He made it a point to comment on most of her photo albums. To ‘like’ many of the random things that she said.

One would think Azad never got over the high-school crush he had on her.

It was like he was following her, watching everything she said or did online. Which lately was only on facebook. How could one make time for more than one of these ‘social’ thingies?

Azad was an uncommon name even in Lebanon. His Iranian dad apparently insisted on it.

She tried to dissuade Azad Hamidi in her own way. Not commenting on his posts or being excessively interactive. Even ignoring some of his posts.

Aaron, her 11 yr old, taking his first facebook steps noticed Azad too. He often joked that ‘AAAzed’ is all over facebook. That North American pronunciation of the exotic name always made Kyra smile.

The accent that a first generation Lebanese immigrant like her would have liked to own. Thank goodness her grammar in English and French was strong. Made her feel confident even without the local accent.

Then one day Azad sort of disappeared. Oh he was still logging in on facebook. Just not appearing in her feed…often enough.

Something similar happened before. Back then she made it a point to draw him back to her by commenting on some insignificant post of his. She missed the attention, it was different.

That tactic would not work again. Would be too obvious. Especially since she confided about Azads FB stalking to her best friend Suzanne. ‘AsStalker’ is what Kyra referred to him in jest. After all he was a world away. No harm done.

What Kyra could do for now, is follow everything that he said or did online. If only Suzanne knew what she was up to. Suzanne was never convinced of who was doing the stalking in the first place.

The audience of one.

You could not have missed all the well meaning tips about your facebook privacy settings. With the like button and the open graph protocol, Facebook is betting on making the internet a facebook based ecosystem. Users are part of this ecosystem and their behaviour can now be shared with others, even beyond facebook. As an example, if you ‘like’ something on TED your facebook friends can know what you ‘liked’ when they visit TED. What does it mean for users privacy? Well, users are responsible for their privacy. Pretty tame concept if you ask me.
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