Sunday, April 8, 2012

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 will only get more popular over time and social media will definitely change.  What we see now as social media will only be the start.  As more and more people see the popularity of social media, more people are using it as a tool to broadcast information.  Technology will no doubt improve and with that social media will improve as well.  The quality of these tools will improve and those with a love for technology will jump right in.  It will change in a way that it will become more complex I think.  And although it is more complex, a genius out there will make a way for those who are less technologically inclined to be able to figure it out as well.  I think that more and more people will use hand held devices to access their social media sites rather than going on the computer.  As handheld devices become more and more inclined to mimic a computer, the more likely that our generation will use them to do a lot of their tweeting, face booking, emailing, and blog posting.  Many people might start making their own social media site mimicking many of the popular sites but until one has more options and easy management such as Facebook, none will take over the lead for popular social media sites. 
I believe that eventually Facebook will lose its popularity and another one will rise to take its place.  I am safe to say that this site is probably being worked on right now.  Social Media will definitely change in the future, by new technology sweeping the earth or perhaps some other way, but social media will definitely change the future and handheld devices will be the most popular way of accessing it.