Blog Number 4

It is impossible to know what the future holds, however I think that Social Media usage and popularity is on an up rise and will continue to be utilized with even more understanding and frequency as time goes on. I think that with the way the whole internet and technology world is heading, that is to make things faster, more visual and more accessible via smart phones, web cams and smarter computers. I think that social media is headed in to the direction of being able to be accessed anywhere and would be more visually stunning. I also believe that with the mobile generation there will be smarter applications, such as the new Google application that allows you to take a picture on your smart phone, and from that picture get all the web pages associated with the subject. For example if you were visiting Toronto and took a picture of the CN tower, from that picture you could access web pages that would give you the history and interesting facts about the CN tower or would allow you to get directions to places of interest that are near the CN tower.

I think that anything to do with mobile access to the internet and different ideas that can be put into applications on your smart phone will be the next big step in Social Media. Applications where you can find out information or share information in any form, such as video, written, picture, faster from your phone would be the direction i see social media going. I think that another thing we will see will be major companies trying to keep up with the trends in Social Media to inform and gather new customers. there may soon be applications where you can scan a barcode and get all the retail prices from different competitors in your general area. In saying that I think that we will see new smart phone technologies, new three dimensional televisions , which are already in the process of being made, but maybe we will see a three dimensional phone screen, that could project a 3D display. No one will ever know exactly where technology is headed, but I find that some of the ideas I have posted above are quite plausible and the idea that companies and corporations will have to keep up with the direction in which social media is headed in order to stay in business, is also an important factor in technological advancements.