How do you think
social media will change in the future?
What other trends would you add to the mix? Are they any specific
technologies that you think will gain popularity or emerge?
Social Media has no means of slowing down. The further we
get into this technological age, the more things advance. People will come out
with more innovative ideas to keep us connected, and they will undoubtedly make
it better. This is only the beginning for us. With technologies like Google
Glasses coming out, we could be looking at a brand new stream of social media
changes. Once they finally come out, and become popular; I predict that we get
an easy photo/uploading app that allows us to upload hands free. Speaking of
photo sharing websites, I believe they will become more intricate throughout
the years. With sites such as Instagram on the rise, I can only see this trend
continuing into the future.
Facebook is one of the most popular websites on the
internet. It has over 800 million active users, and it continues to grow on a
daily basis. Unfortunately, as with everything on the internet, I feel like
sooner or later it will outgrow it's shelf life. People these days strive to
find new things, and I see alternatives of Facebook will eventually rise. In
the first few years of MySpace, nobody really expected it to go downhill as
quickly as it did. Once Facebook came around, MySpace just wasn't cool anymore.
I predict that the same thing will happen to Facebook, as well as Twitter.
I've also noticed a lot more of my friends using the website
StumbleUpon. The site is brilliant in my opinion, and there isn't anything else
quite like it on the internet. I feel like StumbleUpon has a lot of room to
grow with younger generations. It's had a slow build since coming into
existence, but the longer it's been around, the more users it's managed to
maintain. The idea of a website the becomes intuitive with your likes and
personality is extremely marketable to me.
I believe social media will be here as long as we exist.
We've become so dependent on it, that it's taken over a large part of our
social interaction. Weither the pros outweigh the cons, or vice versa; we can
be sure that social media will take us straight into the future.
