The Future of Social Media

I decided to look into more detail about the future of social media because in recent years it has been changing at an alarming rate. Grant Pardee reflects on this in his article 'The Future of Social Media According to VICE'. Social Media is now a dated tool in society. The communications it refers to has become cemented into our everyday existence. Users of social networking sites jumped from 9% to 49% between early 2005 and late 2006. According to Facebook, there are more than 1.35 billion active users. Now, social media feels as if its the backbone of society not just the internet.

The fastest growth is occurring on Tumblr, Snapchat and Instagram. Unfortunately, I am not that familiar with Tumblr but considering its active user base grew by over 120% this year, maybe I'd want to be. Instagram seems to mainly be popular with teenagers and Snapchat has gotten so popular, it rejected a $3 billion offer from Facebook.

Its hard to predict what will happen to social media sites in the future as we can't predict their next moves, but I firmly believe Snapchat is becoming increasingly popular especially with its new updates. I feel there might also be another form of Whatsapp, which could be detrimental for Facebook's recent investment.