Social Times: What’s the Future of Social Media?
dbrowell
· 1 year ago
I think the idea that everyone will become content creators is predicated on the notion that everyone needs to (or wants to). Generationally, Boomers aren't so much about creating content as they are consuming - particularly reviews and such. Whereas Gen X'ers like to create reviews more and tend to be more verbose. Gen Y prefers burst exchanges between people. So I think we will see a number of trends in flux as blogs give way to more Twitter/Wall- like interactions. I'm not sure that Boomers will ever create as much content as the subsequent generations.
Clay Newton
· 1 year ago
I think that it is actually a realistic expectation that eventually everyone will be using social media of some sort. We're very far from that at this point, but much of that has to do with a disintegration of social media tools with the average person's life.
When my grandma (who doesn't have a computer) is looking at pictures on Flickr because she knows that's the best place to find pictures of her great grandchild, it's not too much of a leap to expect that in 20 years grandparents everywhere will think of using social media tools to communicate with their great grandkids.
That's just one case where social media tools will become integrated into peoples lives; there are tons more that are obvious, others will arise as new tools and systems become available.
Dan Thornton
· 1 year ago
It depends how you define content, as my colleague Dave Cushman wrote about after we chatted...http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2008/06/community-defined-you-cant-take-part.html
Not everyone will go to the effort of writing a blog post, but by creating a profile on Facebook or Myspace, or uploading a message via Twitter, you've taken part. And plenty of people are looking at tools like Twitter for integration in practical solutions to daily problems, rather than a social network/message service in itself.
dhemley
· 1 year ago
I think as Social Media continues to grow we'll likely see an increase in people who become content "creators" as more businesses and individuals use blogs, video, music, and text in their communications.
However, I think the REAL differences in growth will be in number of critics, collectors, joiners, and spectators. (**described in Groundswell, listed below)
In effect, I think what will be most noticeable is in the number of people who'll move from "inactive" to people who begin to consume social content. Some sooner then others, but eventually it'll become inevitable in order to live in the 21st century.
**from Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff: 1. Creators— make social content go. They write blogs or upload video, music, or text. 2. Critics—respond to content from others. They post reviews, comment on blogs, participate in forums, and edit wiki articles. 3. Collectors—organize content for themselves or others using RSS feeds, tags, and voting sites like Digg.com. 4. Joiners—connect in social networks like MySpace and Facebook. 5. Spectators—consume social content including blogs, user-generated video, podcasts, forums, or reviews. 6. Inactives—neither create nor consumer social content of any kind.
Nandakumar
· 10 months ago
Read more about future of social networking & media.. I have collected lots of points..
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When my grandma (who doesn't have a computer) is looking at pictures on Flickr because she knows that's the best place to find pictures of her great grandchild, it's not too much of a leap to expect that in 20 years grandparents everywhere will think of using social media tools to communicate with their great grandkids.
That's just one case where social media tools will become integrated into peoples lives; there are tons more that are obvious, others will arise as new tools and systems become available.
Not everyone will go to the effort of writing a blog post, but by creating a profile on Facebook or Myspace, or uploading a message via Twitter, you've taken part. And plenty of people are looking at tools like Twitter for integration in practical solutions to daily problems, rather than a social network/message service in itself.
However, I think the REAL differences in growth will be in number of critics, collectors, joiners, and spectators. (**described in Groundswell, listed below)
In effect, I think what will be most noticeable is in the number of people who'll move from "inactive" to people who begin to consume social content. Some sooner then others, but eventually it'll become inevitable in order to live in the 21st century.
--Debbie Hemley
www.impressionsthroughmedia.com
**from Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff:
1. Creators— make social content go. They write blogs or upload video, music, or text.
2. Critics—respond to content from others. They post reviews, comment on blogs, participate in forums, and edit wiki articles.
3. Collectors—organize content for themselves or others using RSS feeds, tags, and voting sites like Digg.com.
4. Joiners—connect in social networks like MySpace and Facebook.
5. Spectators—consume social content including blogs, user-generated video, podcasts, forums, or reviews.
6. Inactives—neither create nor consumer social content of any kind.
http://ndot.in/blog/2009/02/03/future-of-social...