THE FUTURE!

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?


I think that social media will continue to change in the future. If we think about when social media first started out, it was limited to computers and there was very few limited things you could do on these sites. Nowadays we have smartphone which allows to access social media sites wherever we are in the world. Some phones even have a "post to social media button" right on the phone. Every phone plan now comes with pretty much unlimited social media.


Seeing as new technology continues to come about in our world every single day you would be a fool to think that social media wouldn't change along it. Just look at the new website Google is spending millions on their new project Google +. There is constantly new aspects they are adding to these sites, the most recent being video chats to instant chats on Facebook. Google plus is even allowing you to share information and posts with only certain groups of friends.


I think that the social media trend will continue to grow on the smart phone side of thing, we are all about having these mini computers at our fingertips. 


10 years ago if anyone was tell you to that we would be able to post picture at the click of a button on our cell phones, people would have told you YOU'RE CRAZY. So when i think about social media 10 years from now, i can't even imagine the types of apps and websites we are going to have :)

Social Change.

Do you think social media has the potential to bring about real social change ?
I defiantly think that social media has the potential to bring about real social change, and i already think it has. Twitter and Facebook are the way that our generation communicates nowadays. Social Media has changed the way that social interaction occurs between humans. I know personally I have not sent a letter or even made a phone call over an email, or Facebook message in a very long time. Social media has eliminated the time we need to spend face to face or in person. You are now able to chat with anyone in the world at the push of a button. Compare this to ten years ago when you sent letters that took ages to get to your pen-pal on the other side of the world. Now it literally takes seconds to send a message, photos, or video of them now. This is all thanks to social media. 




Facebook, Twitter and Youtube have allowed for thousands of dollars to be raised for charity and disaster relief, something that was unheard of just five years ago. Youtube has allowed for everyday people to have the chance to share their talents with the entire world. Many people have gotten famous from posting videos on these sites such as Justin Bieber, Soulja Boy and Greyson Chance. Before youtube there wasn't a place that artists could be recognized who otherwise might now have had the chance. Another example of how social change has come about from social media is the ability for everyday people to interact with their icons. Every celebrity, even the Prime Minister has a Facebook or twitter page that allows us to ask questions and be on a personal level with the people you look up to. We no longer have to just see these people on a movie screen or in a magazine. 


 The point is that social media has already brought about a lot of social change, and it will only continue to bring more as it develops. Social Media is a staple in our world today, but whether that is a positive or negative thing is a whole other blog ;)

news and information in social media.

Social media has allowed everyday citizens to become authors, editors, and publishers of news and information. Do you believe that social media has increased the quality of news and information or decreased it?

Personally I believe that social media has increased the quantity of information and news found on the internet, however I’m not so sure it has increased the quality. Social media has allowed anybody and everybody to publish information and news, whether they are a credible source or not.  Any person can go on Twitter, Facebook, blogs or any other social media type site and make up a story or post a picture that is not true and make everybody else believe the story. Photoshop has made it easy to create a photo, and like we say now, a picture is worth a thousand words. As a highly social animal, the human being tends to exaggerate in order to make his/her stories more appealing and exciting. Social media has just increased the rate at which we get news stories, whether they are false or true.

However I do think that social media has increased our ability to get the correct news information quicker. It just depends on us as readers to go to credible sources instead of random news blogs.  Like for me I would go to CTV or CP24 websites or verified twitter pages before i would go to a random blog. Pretty much all major newspapers and T.V stations have social media sites that stream live news stories and allow people to comment and send in their own pictures and reports stories as they are happening. This in my opinion is the upside of news in social media. 

All I know is that we need to take what all these social media news outlets say with a grain of salt.

Digg is one of the most popular, trusted news social media outlets on the web today.

so how big is social media ?

What is your perception of social media, do you think it is a fad or the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution?

In my opinion social media is one of the biggest shifts since the industrial revolution and much more than a fad. Social media has changed the way our world works, how we now communicate with each other. It has allowed us to completely change the way we are able to share ourselves and our thoughts with the world, and tons of people are taking advantage of the opportunity. For example just yesterday I read that Facebook now has over 750 million active users and that people spend over 700 billion minutes per month on the website, and that's only one of the hundreds of social media sites out there on the web.

Social media is at work in many ways. It is a way to advertise your business, share that special talent no one ever knew you had, show your breathtaking photos and keep people informed on your day to day life. For me, social media is a way to talk to my love ones at home face to face, a place to find an amazing photographer for my brothers wedding and a way for my mother to keep checking up on me ;)  

For businesses social media allows for peer reviews, which many business owners have said are more valuable and bring more business then weeks of advertising, not to mention the fact that it's free. 

For young artists social media allows them to be heard by thousands of people around the globe and allows them to be recognized for good and sometimes not so good talent. ITS FRIDAY, FRIDAY, GOTTA GET DOWN ON FRIDAY :)  

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The point is that social media is a part of life, one way or another, for most of us today.  Just look at the statistics above ! Social media will only continue to grow, for example look at Google with their new site Google+. Companies are invested in social media because it is the present and most defiantly the future too. 

http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/

https://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

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