How do you think social media will change in the future? Are they any specific technologies that you think will gain popularity or emerge?

As social media becomes more widely accepted as a communications channel, more and more individuals as well as businesses will find ways to use it. Some of them will innovate.

Social media today in my opinion is a pure mess: it has become a collection of countless features, tools, and applications fighting for a piece of the pie.

In the late 1990s, Internet became more popular, websites that allowed users to create and upload content began to appear. The first social network site (SixDegrees.com) appeared in 1997. From 2002 onward, a large number of social network sites were launched. Some – such as Friendster – enjoyed a surge of popularity, only to fade. By the late 2000s, social media had gained widespread acceptance. For example, Facebook has More than 500 million active users

·         50% of the active users log on to Facebook in any given day

·         Average user has 130 friends

·         People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook.

 And that is a big number, so how social media will change in the future? It already changed so much.

I think social media will have the power to change many things in the upcoming years. Privacy will not be an issue for most people as we are seeing now people post personal information about themselves with no hesitation. People will become more like robots, with no communication skills because all kind of communication will be done through social media.  Social media will change Politics and governments as we already have seen. Next generation or if we can call them the internet generation will lack many things that we have learned to do it manually without the assistance of the computer and Microsoft. I am not saying technology or social media is bad, but everything should be within limits.

 We walk on the streets and everyone is holding his/ her phone, or head down texting someone. Ear piece is on all the time listening to music. Two days ago I was on the bus and the bus driver stopped for a girl. She was looking in her wallet trying to find her pass and the ear piece was on, he saluted her and asked her where she would like to go about 5 times, he started laughing, because she was not responding, then when she looked at him she noticed he was talking to her and she removed the ear piece. If you are going somewhere before you go in to anyplace remove it or turn it off, I found it very annoying to have it on all the time with all due respect to the users. Enough about that, but what I meant to say, if this is happening now it will be worse tomorrow. Phones will be the technology that will lead the social media; probably it will be the new laptop.

For a growing number of Canadians, social media provide a way of keeping in touch with friends, relatives and communities. Social media also allow companies, organizations, governments and parliamentarians to reach large numbers of people. At the same time, social media are changing the ways in which people interact with others, although the full impact of these changes is not yet clear.

People will miss interacting with each other and have the experience to share whatever they want to share face to face, I do not like that. I will keep up with the technology and use it but for me it will not diminish the values of the real communication.

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