Blog #4

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?

"The future of social media... is that the social graph becomes so ubiquitous in everything we do that we stop using the term 'social media'. Just about everything is more interesting when you start to realize how your friends are connected to it, which famous people have been here or which ones are going to be here in the future. Also who’s doing what like what are they watching / listening or playing.
Another thing that social media would be in the future is basically tv / new, more people are posting tv shows and videos on the wall so in case you missed it last night you can now watch it. The news I think will be very big because its fast to get new through social media because its instant you don’t have to wait for news trucks to get there or anything you just post it straight from your phone. Soon social media will be taking over every interactive thing, soon we could stay in our house the whole day and meet and date people online, I think that is going to be a very bad thing because people will start losing interactive skills when meeting a new person out in public.

Social media trends:

-          Privacy expectations will change

-          Complete decentralization of social networks

-          Our interactive with search engines will be different

-          Rise of the content aggregators

-          Social media augmented reality

-          Influencer marketing will be redefined

-          Ratings everywhere

-          Social media agents

-          Riding the wave aka google

-          Thinking beyond

-          Social media everything and the return of digital media

Cell phones and tablets will be playing a big part of social media because the younger generations keep on getting their cell phones younger every year and soon everyone 10+ will have a cell phone or something to use social media and posting stuff about what they are doing.

Do you think that social media has the potential to bring about real social change?

According to Malcom Gladwell, a well-known author in the area of social media, social media are built around weak ties and real social change can never come from loose networks of people that do not know each other. Do you think that social media has the potential to bring about real social change?

Yes, it does in my opinion. I think it does because you can meet a lot of new people this way say you’re going on vacation and you want someone to hang out with / or show you around, on social media website you can meet a person that will do that and plus you can meet people that will also do activity’s with you. And we all know that social media websites can bring your family closer together sharing the information about what you’re doing or taking pictures.

Facebook... What to say about Facebook. Facebook has done some big stuff with social changes, now you don’t have to use the phone at all to contact people you can have private messages, you can also video chat with them too and share photos between both of you. Another example when hurricane Katrina wrecked everyone’s house you could make a Facebook group that would let you donate to the people that got everything taken away from them

One example is that KONY thing, 2 weeks ago if you said kony no one would know what you’re talking about but it’s just blew up all over Facebook everyone had it on their walls posting videos etc. So that is one huge change that social media has made

To sum everything up Maclom Galdwell has a great point, Social media does have the effects to bring changes to the world, But it does take lots of time so if you’re looking to make a change though social media be prepared to be spending lots of hours on it . Social media will only get bigger in the world when it comes to change I believe