Social Media: One Year from Now
To conclude the semester long blogging assignment, I will write about this article that predicts the changes that will occur with social media in the next year. During 2009, social media took off at speeds that no one had predicted, and next year the social media bandwagon looks to gain even more attention, and next year looks to bring even more people to “connect” with others. The author of the article posts ten predictions that he thinks we will see throughout the year 2010 and I will briefly cover a few of them. First, he predicts that social media will be completely integrated in to everything that we do. No longer will we have Facebook status updates, Twitter followers, or flickr accounts. Instead, everything that we do (that we wish to share with people), will be in one place to share and connect with people. He also predicts that the use of mobile technologies will be the top used form of social media. It is predicted that the number of people using mobile web will rise to nearly 1 billion by the end of 2010. Another prediction on social media for next year is that companies will be more concerned with their ROI with their social media sites. Companies like Facebook have been able to see some profits during 2009, but more companies will become more concerned with doing the same as 2010 comes around. These are only a few of the interesting predictions that the author of this article brings up, take a look at the article and check out some of the other ones. I find these very interesting and would really like to see how some of these play out during the next year. I think it would be really cool to see if some of these predictions actually happen or not.
