How do you think social media will change in the future? What other trends would you add to the mix? Are they any specific technologies that you think will gain popularity or emerge?

How do you think social media will change in the future? What other trends would you add to the mix? Are they any specific technologies that you think will gain popularity or emerge?

In my opinion, the social media will certainly become more and more popular in the future. There will have more people from different ages  join the social media such as facebook, twitter, and MSN space. so we can have the better communication in the social media. In the future, we can work at home at the most time, and have classes on the social media, dating someone. It will totally chang our life style.According to the fact that social media growing so fast, the traditional media such as TV, radio, newspaper will try to mix with the social media otherwise they will finally disappear. So in the later few years, i think we will see more combinations of social media and traditional media. For example, the editor will write the news but not appear on the newpaper and just appear on the social media. And TV station will connect with the youtube and have everthing on the youtube. Because there are not so many people watch TV on our age.

For the specific technologies will gain popularity , i think is facebook or something like that. Because everyone need to communicate with others. we also want to get more communication on the social media. and the facebook can connect with our real life which is the most important thing. It will become more and more popular, and there will be more similar website will appear in differetn country. In China, we have RENREN which is a very popular media website like facebook.

Do you think that social media has the potential to bring about real social change?

According to Malcom Gladwell, a well-known author in the area of social media, social media are built around weak ties and real social change can never come from loose networks of people that do not know each other. Actually, I am not quite agree with that. Social media has already had a big change in our real world network. There are some examples:

·         On the social media, such as facebook, renren , we can know a lot of friends which really enlarge our real world network. And even some people meet their right one on the social media. It was unbelievable some years ago.

·         For the business. Our traditional way to do the business is that we have customers in the mall, and we talk about the price and then make a deal. But now, we can get our customers on the social media. And we can sell our goods without meeting the customers. It is really a big change in our business network.

·         Some people like me live in another country which is far away from my family. In the past, we will not see my family for a long time, if I am not flying back to China. My parents will miss me very much. But now, I can talk with my family every day on MSN, we share my life with them in my space. The social media bring me and my family more closer no matter where you are.

I really think we are not necessary to talk about this topic. Because it has already happened. We can feel that in our real life. And I believe that this change will become more obviously.

social media decrease the quality of news

Do you believe that social media has increased the quality of news and information or decreased it?

I think the social media has decreased the quality of news. Everyone can post news on the social media. But some of them are not professional. They are not quite familiar with the quality of the news. They just write what they want to write. Sometimes they ignore the responsibility for an editor. The topics they post on the social media refer to the criminal topic, privacy etc. on the traditional media, they provide us very professional news which is true and believable. On the social media, there is so much news. If we read a lot of news which is not good will waste a lot of time but get nothing valuable.and there are so many advertising on social media now.  But the one big advantage is that we can hear many different sounds. In some countries, the government control the sounds of the traditional media. But the government cannot control all the social media. So it is a good point in some countries.

What is your perception of social media, do you think it is a fad or the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution?

What is your perception of social media, do you think it is a fad or the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution?


I think Social media is the bigest shift sine thhe Industrial Revolution. It totally Changed our lives. In the new generation, it changed the way people communicate and our life style. In the past, we know the world from TV, radio, newspaper, but now we use internet,FaceBook, blog to know the world.  It is fast and global. we can just stay at home and know the world.

Social Media is very important in our life. we can use blog to communicate with our friends and family. Actually, i am not good at FACEBOOK. when i was in China, we use RENREN, which is a good community for your friends.Most of my classmates in China is in that blog. we can share music and pictures there. Although i am in Canada, we still keep in touch which is amazing. 


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