If you read the previous article, then you’ve understood that social media sites in the future would appear like TV channels, allow home appliances to post something for the sake of their owners, and will auto-customize according to user habits.
In this article, let’s get to know some more forecasts that could greatly be found in the social media websites of the next decades.
4. Your desktop will be a social media window.
E-mail and chat are two of the most important services that the web has to offer. During the first decade of the internet's fame, these two were separate services offered by different sites. Back then, there was MIRC (Microsoft Internet Relay Chat) – the most popular chat utility software. It allows you to register into an account so you can log on and chat to anyone you choose, anonymous or not.
And if you want to send an e-mail, there was Yahoomail, the most popular e-mail service then. MIRC and Yahoomail gave monumental services to the people in the sense that they offered great communication convenience at that time.
As years went by, however, people seem to find switching from one software or website into another just to send messages or chat to someone uncool. Social media site developers realized this, which made them include instant messaging in their creations.
Then sharing, tagging, poking and other “ings” came along– making the likes of Facebook and Twitter seem to appear like they are the only sites that matter. People can do [almost anything] that can make them happy while being on those sites, so other sites are nothing but minor keyplayers in their digital existence.
But still, there is the “almost,”– the very word that's handicapping today's social sites. As an answer to this, web engineers are currently working on their ultimate brainchild: making everyone's desktop an interactive window where they can see the world and interact with anyone or anything they can meet from there.
Like the other aspects of the scenarios in the previous article, the visuals of this innovation are still quite hard to describe but this system would certainly make the desktop of your computer screen a social media page by default.
Upon turning on your machine, you will not be presented with a desktop that shows you icons of applications that you can work within your computer. Instead, you will be presented with a portal into the digital universe, with snippets of images that attribute to your lifestyle and that of your friends.
You can just hover or click into those images, and a digital drawer will be opened so you can begin your job, play a game, work on your hobby, fornicate, or whatever usual routine you may want to engage in. The term “Desktop PC” will then get totally obliterated, having been replaced by “Social Media Desktop” – a computing machine that won't be viewed as a computer anymore by its users.
5. Your profile pic box will recognize your own face.
You can put your own face on your profile pic or you may put someone else's, that's a common fun practice. You can even create multiple accounts just to prove how versatile or well-versed you are. Enjoy it while you still can, because, in the next years, you might not get to do that anymore.
Because of security threats, identity thefts, plagiarism, and other issues that are becoming too much of a problem for all the governments of the world, cyberspace laws are starting to get very solidified so they can have a much stronger grip on cyber-criminals.
When this gets implemented, you will be only entitled to one account per social media site and... you will only get to put your own face on your profile pic box... not that of a celebrity's, nor that of a cartoon character's, your face and yours alone.
But how will they ever know if it's your face since they don't have a record of who you really are? One probable method is that upon signing up, you will be prompted to make a video capture of your entire facial features. Front view, left and right, the camera should have a good look.
The captured image or images will be set as your profile pic and should be changed periodically to indicate whether you have grown fatter, thinner, older, or whatever alterations you may have overtime. Worrying about someone who has hacked your account or that of your friend's may not be a problem anymore.
The profile pic box could act as a facial recognition feature that produces real-time scans from the actual current user. If the images don't match, the account will shut down and report the incident to the site admin. This scheme will most likely produce great resentment from those social networkers who habitually use other names and faces. but it is a small price to pay for security and great peace of mind.
6. Everybody becomes a Zuckerberg.
During the early days of the internet, making a website is too difficult that only those who have in-depth knowledge about software engineering can make them. Today, however, making websites is just as easy as playing a video game. Anyone with the right motivation and the simple knowledge of clicking and dragging can make a website easily.
Thanks to the breakthroughs in Object-Oriented Programming, writing programs were truly revolutionized that making a set of functional menus and software features can already be accomplished by anyone with just average computer knowledge.
These days, the term “designing” and “furnishing” seemed more appropriate than “coding.” You can already be a programmer without even writing a single line of code. Such a method is now adapted in web design.
With the website templates that are freely available for anyone to download and use, all a newbie webmaster needs to have is the passion and the guts. Web-authoring tools today are so user-friendly that they don't only include pre-designed website templates but an entire website package with built-in tools and menus.
Such stuffs are already equipped with functions that pertain to a particular kind of site: gaming, newsgrouping, video-streaming, and yes, social networking. If this is neatly developed and becomes commonplace in the next years, then everyone can easily become a Mark Zuckerberg.
Any netizen could just furnish the social media site that is already tailored for him and unleash it into the world. Of course, it would take more than the interest and the idea to become the next big internet sensation. It would take innovation and uniqueness – the latter being impossible to obtain by the majority.
After all, how can it be called ‘unique’ if you can easily find it everywhere? If everyone can create his own social media site in a flash, it could only mean that the entire nature of the social media realm has evolved into something more– one whose building blocks cannot be grasped by the average web designer for the time being.
Many digital experts claim that the x-factor that makes social media so addictive could be toppled down by the next revolutionary social media herald. Whether it would still be Mark Zuckerberg, an offspring of his, or someone whose genius is yet to emerge is still unknown.
Maybe you should close this article now and start building your own site. Who knows? You could be that herald to this new social networking site being predicted here.
I hope i can be a zuckerberg 🤣🤣