Since the advent of Web 2.0 the way people used Internet has completely changed. Now more and more people are interacting with internet and tons of user generated content is being uploaded on internet each and every day. Some few popular Web 2.0 website are mypsace.com, del.icio.us, wikipedia. These sites are completely based on content made by its users. The admins of these sites have no role in creating content for these sites. Many people have said that Web 2.0 is the new birth of Internet and many people are going to devote their career on it.
The biggest benefit of Web 2.0 sites are its networking capacity, Sites like Myspace, Linkedin, Hi5, orkut, etc offer you a chance to meet millions of people who are online. You just need to make your account on these sites and add people you know into your list and then further you can add people who are on your friends list. In this way you can make a whole degree of networking with tons of people. This will not only help you in getting new prospect for your job but will also help you make popular among your peers. Next big thing that Web 2.0 offers is its ability to nourish user generated content. At first Internet was al about content created by Webmasters but now even the users of any website can put up there content like text, videos, audio files , images , etc on website. Besides that, sites like del.icio.us, Stumbleupon allow you to add your website URL into them which also help you to promote your website. Even more site like Digg, Netscape, have gone little further and allow its users to submit new items into them.
In general, Web 2.0 has given lot more facilities to its users than the earlier web was able to give but the thing to look is that whether this boom of Web 2.0 might also collapse as the dot com boom did in 2000.