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?
In the future, I believe Facebook and Twitter will become more popular and will have an easier interface to appeal to the older population. Facebook, hopefully, will realize their demographic is getting older therefore increase their font size like Twitter. Also, I think there will always be people using social media because of its possibilities, which means companies, will be constantly improving the user experience and interface. As a result of social media growing popularity with individual, companies, charity, not-for-profit, entrepreneurs and entertainment business this gives me reason to believe that networking and building partnerships will be much easier.
Social media has already become one of the most popular interests in today’s society, there isn't much left of the real world that has not been acquainted with social media. From social networking sites to iPods and iPhones... Having an App for pretty much everything there is to do such has starting your car... or turning off your lights. I do not think social media will change drastically in the future, I think that it will just keep growing and take over anything that is not involved with it. Pretty much the technologies that will gain popularity are the ones that are used for social media, technologies such as: Blackberries, iPhones, iPads, Laptops, and any hand held technologies or just any other technologies that allow you to access social media.
But a trend I could see is making YouTube more instantaneous with interacting with its users. For example, live chats on YouTube so users can get instant feedback from subscribers or potential subscribers instead of having video response long after the original video was posted. The two specific technologies that I think will gain popularity is Foursquare because all that is required is to text where you are from your phone, which most people do anyways to find out if their friends are nearby. A gadget that might help with this is a phone or small device with GPS and wireless that automatically checks your location, updates for you, and to see if other friends are close then notifying you.
Awesome blog Lisa i do agree with that Facebook and Twitter will become more popular. Everyone pretty much has a Facebook account, and when more people are born into this world and they get to the right age they will have a Facebook account. I do agree that they should be more demographic to the older people. A lot of older people have facebook to keep in touch with old friends and Facebook is always changing and people hate when it changes.
ReplyDeleteI really agree with what you’ve said here Lisa and I myself have made some similar points in mine. I like your comment on how you don’t think it will social change will change too much in the near future. I agree with that as it has already improved and changed within the last few years.
ReplyDeleteYou are right about changing their layout to suit the older audience, with the bigger fonts. It is true that the demographic is getting older, therefore it's their job to make it easier for elders.
ReplyDeleteI think the comment about YouTube is true, live chat for users to be able to express their feelings right away could be a possible change.