Moving towards our future we will have some
interesting changes, specifically in social media. Currently technology
advances by the week. Think about how far social media has come over the past
five years and in the next five years where will we be? I believe that most of
the current platforms i.e. Facebook, and twitter will be replaced by a new
program that will unify all the different assets of all the social media that
we currently have into one platform. The one thing that would be truly
revolutionary would be getting this program everywhere in the world that would
be an accomplishment. Something like this will totally change the way we look
at social media.
At the current time it’s really hard to say what
new happen though. Currently it seems that the social media we have will morph
and change as our needs change so, I don’t really see there being a huge change
in that sense in the coming future. Social media will just continue to grow in
numbers as more and more people get in contact with it. Nearly
one in four people worldwide used social networks in 2013 (1). Eventually
everyone will be linked through one service or another, which is extremely
powerful.
Currently
our mobile phones are part of our lives more then people have ever imaged in
the past. This mobile technology or at least the idea of it is here to stay.
Our population thrives off being connected through a phone. I believe that we
will only make these devices more powerful. Faster, thinner and better is where
we are going at the moment. We will not have another big leap in design for a
mobile device in a long time. Large manufactures of these devices are making
way too much money, as it is the way they are doing it. It would cost too much
to make a big leap. Lets just take a look at the IPhone 4 to the IPhone 5, 5s
and so on. The different features of the phones are microscopic from the
advance between the flip phone to our mobile device that we currently have.
Overall,
our future as far as social media goes will be interesting. In the near feature
we wont see much of a change honestly. We will have to wake a good amount of
time for something amazing. The things that are popular will stay that way as
they change to make consumers happy with one platform. The future will be exciting;
will we see “the” platform emerge? So many questions but not enough answers currently.
Time will only tell what truly happens to social media.
Sources:
http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Social-Networking-Reaches-Nearly-One-Four-Around-World/1009976
While I agree that there will be new social networks, I don't know if there will eventually be just one. Even though Facebook has posts and picture sharing, Twitter and Pinterest are still able to stand on their own because they have different layouts and features that some people prefer over Facebook's. If there eventually is one social network to rule them all (ha ha), I think it'd make more sense if the current social networks merged into one since they would already have a large user base and loyalty. But even then there is probably a different feature someone else could offer that other people may prefer.
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