Social media are media for social interaction, which involve social networking or mobile technologies, or other communication for having an interactive change of communication. It is clearly distinguished from industrial media, which are basically for the industrial purposes. In the running era, emerging of a social network is a matter of a minute, yet technology doesn’t stop here. Something always waits to be revealed. After blogging, networking and community groups, there is plethora to come in social media.
Instant video publishing
Instant video publishing is one of the upcoming trends in the second half of the year. Uploading and sharing photos has already been very popular in the last six months. So, here is the tag of videos, where people will definitely share online streaming of their favorite games and plays. It is all on the basis of healthy technology with strong data connections. Already, there are few services like Qik, which Skype allows mainstream videos to be uploaded from mobile phones.
Social networks decentralization
In the coming years, there will be a cultural shift, whereby people will be accepting more and more exposure by opening information both; corporate and personal. There will be complete decentralization of social networks. The concept of a ‘friend network’ will replace the social networking as the beginning has already taken in the form of Facebook and other community groups.
New role of search engines
Search engines will play their role in different ways. Our interaction with Google Search will also shift along with the cultural shift. The importance of digital marketing will definitely increase. With the growing media, many individuals maintain 2-3 accounts ranging from social network to personal micro blogging. One of the coming changes in media will be to maintain this influx at one place.
Openly accessible information will be linked with personal everyday experiences. For example; the phone contacts will be accessible with the reviews present in Facebook, Twitter or any other like community experience. In this way, you will be able to know what the person is doing in real time, before you make a call. So, all the personal information will be no more private, rather it will be disclosed on the social community page.
In the near future, commerce sites will experience the influence of marketing. Brands and business would have feedback on their open websites, and it will be so common that they will expect it to be woven in the digital hand on technology.
Customer keywords like online and offline are the common ones, but in the near future when businesses will engage their customers, it will be replaced with the templates like “I am down with burden” and “I never receive my package, on time”.
These all tools will make things open. You can say this is a simple journey from general to specific, from close to open, from private to customize and from complicated to simple. All the group and community based media depends upon the type of communication that is being carried out around the town. So, see how it evolves!