Taking the crystal ball – where will social media be this time next year? What new innovations will there be? Or will it just be more of the same?
Will Facebook still be the hottest social networking site? Will Twitter have uttered its last tweet? Will we all be creating our own social network sites and then through viral marketing - expand their presence? Seth Godwin in his recent article about Viral Marketing highlighted that there are two types of viral marketing and the most influential and successful is whereby viral is built into the product – it sells itself – YouTube is a huge example of this. We forward an interesting site, video clip on through our own huge personal networks.
Will Secondlife which is populated by our AVATARS become the meeting place where we all intereact in a virtual world rather than the one we are in now? Will it be a better place without War, Famine, Sickness, Politics? If the Avatars are based on us then much of what we have in our world will follow through into our SecondLife.
Whatever our thoughts, - one thing for sure is that we will still be communicating by whatever is the latest trend. Our nature is to share, expound our theories, keep in touch, comment on, share our opinion, voice our thoughts – we need to be heard!
Communication is the key to our future and has been in our past. The lack of communication has led to many unfortunate and costly outcomes i.e. battlefileds of the 1st world war, etc.
You are right no matter what the world might bring – communication at the most basic of levels will be required if we are to gain the maximum from the future. Second life is a world that is made up from what we bring to it – and you can not tell me that in there we will not have those trying to gain over others, that some will seek to gain power and glory, etc. Second life to me does not spell better life – just more of the same but with those in this life looking to be better and greater in their second life. Anyway who is to say that what we are now in is not secondlife!!!
Lokk forward to reading more blogs in the future
Apparently playstation 3 is the future!
Quite a few of my colleagues have met up out of hours recently to enter PS3s virtual world .. they chatted, went bowling, practically a virtual date! They’re now trying to persuade me to hold our meetings via it … not a step i’m ready to make yet!