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Social media is evolving, revolving and sometimes struggling. It seems there are trends which are there for a while now.
Some sites reflecting overall trends lose steam and die while others are born and/or accelerate.
Here is a dozen of them that are most important IMHO, 12 social media trends you must be aware of:
- Twitter, Twitter and Twitter for business, journalism and blogging
- Meta social media sites, who needs Digg when there is a Twitter Digg-like interface ?
- Image Bookmarking, forget the image section, image only social sites boom
- Site, blog and WordPress integration, TweetSuite being the most advanced
- Consolidation: Inspite of booming microblogging Pownce and Jaiku died.
- Niche social media sites by the hundreds, for every niche there is a smaller one
- Social browsing 2.0, StumbleUpon is around since 2002. What’s new?
- Monetization, security and privacy disasters, companies will sell your data!
- Viral marketing replaces one time link baiting, viral campaigns go on as long as they do
- Online Reputation Management is main stream, everybody does that
- Location based services, where are you, where are your friends?
- Mobile social media, Twitter on the iPhone is prehistoric by now it seems
Of course I’m biased. I left out music social media which are booming too for example. Also I ignored video here but it’s similar to microblogging, I sense some consolidation (Google discontinues Google Video) and blog integration is a must by now.
What else is there to mention? Tell me. I want to see more than 12 social media trends you must be aware of below.
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It’s always interesting to watch the evolution of social media and to try to guess where it’s going.
I agree with you that many companies & professionals will begin using social more in 2009 as a way to interact with others in the industry & an avenue for online reputation mgmt.
Thanks for the nice list…
What about Google Friend Connect? What do you think, should it be on that list?
I see no value in Google FriendConnect as of now. I tried it and nothing happened beside my avatar showing up on the website I added. Then I stopped using it and forgot about it. When even an early adopter like myself can find no use in it why should the general public?
Google SearchWiki is another thing. In a way it’s also a social media form. It will become much bigger as time goes by.
Google SearchWiki has a great potential because of its playing field – search engine results pages. But I doubt many people will read comments – its only social feature. Problem with comments on SearchWiki is that 90% of them looks like advertisement for the page commented.
I believe the niche social media sites will become more popular and the mega, one-size-fits-all sites will become less popular.
That’s purely based on my own feelings as I would rather congregate with others whose interests I share.
What about facebook? That site has exploded. I can understand why some social site die. They are just filled with spam and we are getting tired of looking at the same old thing…
I believe that in the future, the smaller niche social media sites will become more prevalent, with users desiring something that meets their unique needs more closely than the huge networking sites available at the moment.
Mobile social media, Twitter on the iPhone is prehistoric by now it seems.
i believe this gonna make a wooha in next 10 year.
our tech is getting advance and advance..
social media sites will get a good designation in the market after some time. Because people are not fully aware of Social media sites.
Absolutely our technology is indeed improving each year comes and I can’t imagine what next!
i believe our technology has shown how huge it is and how it can be in the coming days