Friday, 13 April 2012

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 social media will change in the future by having more and more things you can do on the social media sites. Such as buying and selling product on Facebook and other social media sites. I believe if they made social media sites more open to whatever you wanted to do such as searching the internet and also get more and more company’s and brands that people know and use themselves on the social media sites. The treads I would add to social media itself is make more of a business page like for owners of business’s to use and not be linked to the general public. Reason for this is that they will be on a page of just business and they will bring more people to their shops and increase sales if the customers like their product but don’t have time to go in to the shop they can purchase their product online. Other treats that I would add to the mix are making a site that your kids can use so they are also not on the same site as the adults and make it very secure so that none of the adults can get on to their page. Also I would add parent monitoring options that they will get emails if their kids have post anything they should be concerned about. This would provide the kids that are on Facebook now to a safer more like their own social networking site. I believe that this would gain a lot of popularity in all of these added threads I would add the business page would because there is advertising and selling of product in one site and the site is just for that. The children’s social networking page would also because they get to go on their own page and interact with other children in their class or outside activity’s with parents not having to keep going on the site to see what they are up to, they will just get an email if they are posting anything to be concerned about.