"With Twitter, Williams was launching a communications platform that limited you to a couple of sentences at most. What was next? Software that let you send a single punctuation mark to describe your mood?"  Asks Steven Johnson in his article, How Twitter Will Change The Way we Live.  Well, I doubt that.  However, i do believe that the Internet has much more in store for us than we can imagine even though it is very hard to tell what exactly the nest big thing for media really is.  First Myspace was brought to the Internet, then Facebook now Twitter is hoping on the social media bandwagon. 

 

One thing new about the usage of Facebook compared to other social media items is that "Internet users behaved differently on Facebook than anywhere else online: They used their real names, connected with their real friends, linked to their real email addresses, and shared their real thoughts, tastes, and news."  Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network's Plan to Dominate the Internet - And Keep Google Out. By Fred Vogelstein. 

 

I used Google to find "What is the next big thing in social media" and results popped up saying that some believe that the next big thing in social media is "a single site that aggregates content from a variety of social network sites would be a blessing for consumers; who signed up for a variety of social-networking sites from MySpace and Facebook to LinkedIn and Flickr cannot keep track of them all. "  Social Media Aggregation by Alain Portmann.  It is though that an aggregates site will help filter through interests of users faster than just any ordinary social site.  Like typical trash-talking youngsters, Facebook sources argue that their competition is old and out of touch. "Google is not representative of the future of technology in any way," one Facebook veteran says. "Facebook is an advanced communications network enabling myriad communication forms. It almost doesn't make sense to compare them."

 

Personally, the next big thing in social media could be just about anything.  It all mainly depends on what exactly is being offered.  There are going to be things in social media that are a huge hit such as Facebook and Twitter, however, there is just as much possibility that it could fail with so much as a blink of the eye.  Social media is constantly changing and progressing more and more.  Everyone is willing to change and progress with it as long as it is worth the change in their opinion.