The Future of Social Networking
Social networking has come a long way since the days of aol chat.
Instead of the one dimensional chats that you had with a few of your friends and a few smiley's to describe your feelings, the interactions are more interactive than ever before.
Today we have Facebook and MySpace where you get customized apps on Facebook to discuss different aspects of your personalities and to share thoughts with friends, and then you can also create personalized pages on sites, such as MySpace and Squidoo.
That begs the question of where social networking is heading in the future.
My thought is the following based upon what sites and tools are around right now.
1.
Mobile is in and we will see that video and photo sharing are just the beginning as more and more apps that can handle what you do on your computer on your phone.
The speed of mobile will continue to increase as mobile computing becomes not only an option, but the main choice for cellphones.
2.
A social network for every niche, topic, profession, and hobby.
Now that we have major networks, the next step is for smaller networks of like-minded people to join together on smaller networks where you will not need to search for people like you, since they will be the only ones there.
That means a 50 year old business executive does not have to search through Facebook looking to network with other executives and only finding people you want to in your network.
3.
The future of social networking will be different as our interaction with it will change, so we can in the future not only type our thoughts, but we will see a virtual reality version of social networking that will create a more interactive social networking experience.
The future of social networking will promise new technologies that will enhance our ability to connect with who we want, when we want, and how we want.
Instead of the one dimensional chats that you had with a few of your friends and a few smiley's to describe your feelings, the interactions are more interactive than ever before.
Today we have Facebook and MySpace where you get customized apps on Facebook to discuss different aspects of your personalities and to share thoughts with friends, and then you can also create personalized pages on sites, such as MySpace and Squidoo.
That begs the question of where social networking is heading in the future.
My thought is the following based upon what sites and tools are around right now.
1.
Mobile is in and we will see that video and photo sharing are just the beginning as more and more apps that can handle what you do on your computer on your phone.
The speed of mobile will continue to increase as mobile computing becomes not only an option, but the main choice for cellphones.
2.
A social network for every niche, topic, profession, and hobby.
Now that we have major networks, the next step is for smaller networks of like-minded people to join together on smaller networks where you will not need to search for people like you, since they will be the only ones there.
That means a 50 year old business executive does not have to search through Facebook looking to network with other executives and only finding people you want to in your network.
3.
The future of social networking will be different as our interaction with it will change, so we can in the future not only type our thoughts, but we will see a virtual reality version of social networking that will create a more interactive social networking experience.
The future of social networking will promise new technologies that will enhance our ability to connect with who we want, when we want, and how we want.
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