Like all new inventions, it will continue to grow and change into something new. Without one step the next cannot be taken. Like with tapes, CDs wouldn't exist. Without Computers, downloading and graphic would not have been possible. Without Buffy, or the X-Files, Supernatural wouldn't have become what is it today. Well it didn't probably happen in that order and there was probably a whole lot of factors. The idea is that social media will change and evolve.
Now because all this new technology is coming along, I think people are going to start not talking to each other face to face (ie the movie Wall-e. Now I think thats an extreme). But we are human beings have a need to connect with others, which I believe will see an increased reliance on social media for this connection. With this idea I wouldn't be surprised if the future saw the emergence of more social media sites out there and people having an account on 3 or more of them. Another thing I think we could see come one day to social media is the ability to talk face to face via facebook (unless that has happened already then, well I really don't have a come back for that) since MSN messenger as already introduced that a while ago. In addition to Apple introducing Facetime as well.
A technology I can see growing is the use of social media on cell phones. I have seen and known people who would rather use a cellphone to access their social media rather than a computer. People like the idea of mobile and can post anything any where. Which is probably why the desktop computer is slowly going out. But not completely.
Well its been a good year everyone. Sound off below and........
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I am not sure you are right with the whole no one will really see each other. There is always that human nature to be with someone and to see people in the flesh. I mean facebook with he video calling, skype and now facetime I think humans are always going to be connected but wanting to see each other at some points in their day.
ReplyDeleteI disagree i think people will always want to meet over using technology there is just so much that can be missed over even a video feed i think while business can be done over social media its no replacement for human interaction
ReplyDeleteI can totally relate to the laptop shift to mobile phone analogy. I'm probably of the minority who only use a computer to access my social media accounts. Although I do find it handy to have the ability to access my accounts off my phone, I prefer to utilize my laptop's bigger viewing screen.
ReplyDeleteI can see what you're saying, while its too extreme to say that everyone will suddenly never talk face-to-face again, as much as we don’t like to think social media has taken over our lives, in some little ways it has. I have almost my entire family on Facebook now…my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, EVERYONE. And the funny thing is, now that they’re all on Facebook, I can keep in touch with them and see what they’re up to, but there’s less real interaction going on. Even on my birthday I get tons of Facebook messages and maybe one or two calls. A text message just doesn’t feel as personal. Most of my family live in different cities, so its not like we see each other every day, but none of them bother to call me anymore, and even though we have these video chat applications like Skype and Facetime, I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve ever used them. Talking over the internet doesn’t beat spending real, quality time with someone, and I hope with our excessive use of social media lately, that people don’t forget that.
ReplyDeleteI hugely agree with your first point. I feel that the social networks we have today such as Facebook and Twitter are just stepping stones on the path to something much larger. Not to say there is anything terribly wrong with these sites obviously, because they are very popular. I just think that with the web 3.0 idea, social networking sites will also get smarter. Maybe the name Facebook would stick around, but the site will be entirely different one day. Users will communicate even more through the platforms, I agree with you on that as well. I don't find it to hard to picture it being kind of like Wall-E, everything sitting around talking to this screen one foot away from their face. I hope that's not what this world comes to however.
ReplyDeleteYour point about desktops being less and less popular really made me think, why would anyone want one of these hunks of computer guts in their home?! I bet they will be obsolete one day soon.