Posted on 01/03/2011 4:15:20 PM PST by devane617
I have heard a couple pundits recently state that they believe Social Media—FaceBook, Twitter, MySpace—will see a huge exodus in the very near future. I too believe there will be an exodus, but in smaller proportions than "mass."
My recent experience with Social Media shows a marked increase in spam, businesses and advertising. Seems like everyone on Twitter these days are trying to sell something.
So, what do you think the future holds for Social Media?
I saw a Highway Patrol officer help a woman change her tire today. :)
As a legislative district chair, I use Facebook for meeting announcements. People I know have gotten elected to the state legislature with the help of Facebook and other venues.
That’s an excellent point. Especially if FB does discount marketing through their channel. The problem is valuation and potential competition via market segmentaion. 20 billion dollars? Come on. That is grossly over valued for a company that won’t release it’s books. Also, they’re going to have lots of small and large compeditors springing up all over the place. I see private social networking as the wave of the future.
Personally, I only use them to glean info, not provide it. The whole idea of putting your life out on the net is.. Well, creepy, and just a bit narcissistic. Not to mention dangerous.
OTOH: There are those who have used the medium for great advantage. A little lady from Alaska comes to mind...
Its already in place in Asia. And thats the biggest and fastest growing market. Numerous social net sites - mostly bidness related. But all started as a "network" site.
But, FB, like Starbucks, has name recognition going for it. Thats a powerful draw. So I see it continuing with a move to "value-added" revenue generation. I think the purely social network side will continue.
p.s. - I don't FB, myspace, twitter, linked-in, etc.
Hell, I'm in a country that has more cell-phones than people by about 2x's and I don't even use one of those...lol.
Was he standing there explaining what to do next or was he actually getting his hands dirty and allowing the woman to observe?
I’m at WhatABurber buying a Chocolate Shake :-]
I don’t do twitter, but if one of my facebook friends sends me spam or tries to advertise anything to me that I think is commercial- I “defriend” them immediately. I am on facebook for the friends and family interaction NOTHING ELSE !
He was on the ground changing the tire.
Remarkable behavior for a state employee!
All of those applications you name can and someday will fall into the trash heap of history.
Social media is here to stay. IMHO.
Electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor who had lived in a house without electricity until he was 14. While still in high school, Farnsworth had begun to conceive of a system that could capture moving images in a form that could be coded onto radio waves and then transformed back into a picture on a screen. Boris Rosing in Russia had conducted some crude experiments in transmitting images 16 years before Farnsworth’s first success. Also, a mechanical television system, which scanned images using a rotating disk with holes arranged in a spiral pattern, had been demonstrated by John Logie Baird in England and Charles Francis Jenkins in the United States earlier in the 1920s. However, Farnsworth’s invention, which scanned images with a beam of electrons, is the direct ancestor of modern television. The first image he transmitted on it was a simple line. Soon he aimed his primitive camera at a dollar sign because an investor had asked, “When are we going to see some dollars in this thing, Farnsworth?”
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