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Has Social Media reached it's Peak?

  • Web Diva
    Leader
    November 12, 2022 9:34 AM CST

    Has Social Media reached it's Peak? Is the end near and we are about to witness a massive transformation away from the attachment to the major social media networks?

    We’re Witnessing the End of Social Media

     It’s over. Facebook is in decline, Twitter in chaos. Mark Zuckerberg’s empire has lost hundreds of billions of dollars in value and laid off 11,000 people, with its ad business in peril and its metaverse fantasy in irons. Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has caused advertisers to pull spending and power users to shun the platform (or at least to tweet a lot about doing so). It’s never felt more plausible that the age of social media might end—and soon.

  • Mikel Coreclark
    Member
    November 17, 2022 9:30 AM CST
    Social media will not end. think of it as going from a baby to adulthood.
    It will change and evolve over time but the basic principle will be the same.



    People will always want to share, post, moan rant and rave.

    We just need to evolve with it and embrace the change.



    mikel.
  • Web Diva
    Leader
    November 17, 2022 10:15 AM CST
    I do agree, people do need to share their day with other people no matter what the platform base or social setting may look like in the future. The catch for webmasters, web developers and website owners is to be able to envision the change how it will look as it evolves, get ahead of it, so we aren't left behind like when FB started. FB really did a lot of hurt to message board type websites.
  • Mikel Coreclark
    Member
    November 19, 2022 7:54 AM CST
    Eventually all or most things come full circle. At one point we only had a single computer. then we had 2 computers. then we added a Sync system so both computers could share together. We had 1 server, then 2, then company based servers now we have cloud server and we are working on bigger more socially connected servers.



    Eventually we will have a shared system that will include off world sharing that combines all knowledge.

    But people will always have bad experiences and good experiences. Sometimes its for the user to evolve in our actions and attitudes if we want the shared internet to evolve and be safe.

    The human race are naturally opportunistic and will seek to find ways over, round, under or through any obstacle that they perceive to be an obstacle in their path and free will.

    So in short, it people that need to evolve not the system.



    mikel.
  • Web Diva
    Leader
    November 19, 2022 9:56 AM CST

    There's a good philosophical lesson in your post, and to highlight what stood out to me is the opinion we need to evolve, not the system. Our internet for socialization is like our solar system, vast and endless. There are so many ways the internet can evolve through innovation, but as humans we indeed are the ones that should be challenged to evolve and make the system better, fair and optimize it to best serve everyone.