From this article, I've learned that not only is social media and social networking are on a constant rise, but soon enough, it will be a part of everyday society. Soon enough, all of our social social media identities will be programmed straight into our phone. Smart phones will come to the point of automatically updating somebody's status just based on the location of the phone. Large organizations will start using social media much more to try and find a potential employee, they could even have their own private intranet.
For every good thing, or positive, there is usually a bad, negative thing aswell. For example, with our ever-growing smart phone technology, computers are becoming obsolete. Some might consider this good, but what about the casual or hardcore PC gamers? Some things just aren't made to be supported by such a small device, and in my opinion, keeping a computer just to play some game isn't worth it. Another downside is that we as a people could very easily become less and less social. If we just let our phones and social networks take care of everything, we could become more absorbed by what everyone is doing online, and not what they are actually doing.
These changes probably won't affect me as much as the other guy because I don't spend much time on the web, nor do i have a smart phone. The only thing it will change for me, and probably a lot of others, will most likely be that I will have to do less on the web. If my phone or device could automatically post what it is that I'm doing, or where I am going, then it would eliminate the need for me to do it myself. I guess if I was "lucky" enough, I might be able to find a job with these new features, but being a highschool student, I hardly see the need for a job right now.
During the web 1.0 stage, web pages were generally a one way flow of information. Trends from 1.0 include worries over privacy controlls, usually "read only" web pages. With the new and improved web 2.0 many features have come along the way, introducing social networking. Web 2.0 is all about sharing and mixing up information, or using the web more collaboratively. Web 2.0 intorduce AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) AJAX is the thing that allows gmail email to constantly show you your inbox and updates it so you can see your constant flow of mail, without having to refresh the whole page. It's also the thing that has been autosaving this post as I've been typing it.
