Click to play videoNew Delhi: Time magazine's Person of the Year is a tradition that goes back to 1927 and this year it's you.
You, that is if you're one of the 45 million people in India or hundreds of millions worldwide who post home movies on YouTube or blog your life away or re-hash songs and post them online. In short, you are one of those people who are transforming the Internet from a resource to a living and pulsating lifeline.
It's no longer just about social networking sites like MySpace or orkut or friendster. Check out Youtube as anyone even moderately ‘cool’ will tell you that it has revolutionised the world of home video, from the amateur to the celebrity, everyone's invited.
And then there's Wikipedia, that bastion of open information, which has seen monumental traffic since its launch five years ago.
With more than six million articles, 250 language editions, more than a million registered users as of this March and some 27,000 active users who edited at least five articles a month, as of last December, Wikipedia has changed the face of the quest for knowledge online and it's all thanks to regular people, who surf and edit.
Whether it's writing books or movie reviews online, to online counseling or suicide helplines, the Internet has never had this kind of scope before.
But the Internet has its own negative stems, too, that allows for hate sites, the ugly outreach of child pornography, even for potential suicide bombers to learn the art of bomb making.
But it's in reflecting of our lives, the good and the ugly, from the mundane to the special, that the web is transforming into a living and breathing social organism. And like never before, the web wants to tap into you, making your voice count like never before.
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