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?

Without a doubt I truly believe that social media will change in the future. It’s only a matter of time before some company or someone comes up with a new and better way to use these social media tools. Even today, the enhanced technology we have developed has allowed us to use these tools basically in the palm of our hands. People with phones like the Iphones, blackberry’s and android already have a majority of what they need in these devices. Before, you wouldn’t have internet on a cell phone, now not only do you have internet, you have various applications such as games, video, camera, voice recording and music all at your disposal. The internet on your phone allows you to go on sites such as Facebook, twitter and YouTube which a lot of today’s society use to interact with one another.  Another example of social media changing in the future is the msn app people used to use. Teenagers would go on msn to interact with their friends on a daily basis and would even say they could see themselves using msn forever. Now, Facebook is the new msn and I don’t know anyone that still uses msn. Facebook has better features than msn because technology developed as the years went along and better ideas came up. After Facebook, twitter has really developed quickly and is almost as successful as Facebook if not better. These sites are clear indications that social media is developing better tools/web sites and won’t stop. People who create these tools or sites for us to use will always try to find a flaw and make a better project than the one before.

I personally don’t know what other trends I would add to the mix. I would probably say faster updates or easier access to these tools would be my addition to the mix.

I don’t really think any specific technologies that will gain popularity; there will always be debate no matter what it’s about because people have their own opinion or preferences. I for one like Facebook more than twitter, one of my friends like twitter more and we have had debate about it for a while when twitter first came out. So it really depends what other people like and dislike.

As technology continues to develop so will social media, it’s only a matter of time before something new and better comes out and people start to embrace it.