Social Media’s Future

I just finished reading the links from the assignment and opened a Miller Lite to write about this so if  my words go all …………afdfaoifdasd …..its just me buzzing.

I dont think social networking is going to last but then again nothing does. However, in our lifetime I do believe we will witness the end of social networking. If you think about it and Mrs. Campbell (old english teacher) please forgive me for my grammatical errors but everything we were raised around has either changed or died out.

The car revolutionized transportation. Microchips revolutionized electronics (which I believe has had the greatest impact). High Def television revolutionized television(who the hell wants to go back to fuzzy picture)The iphone revolutionized communication and online interaction. You get the point. But throughout history and throughout computers nothing has ever remained the same. People may find this crazy but I don’t think Facebook revolutionized anything, its just a different type of communication that someone discovered about communication by accident. Do I think its sucks? No, I have a Facebook account. Do I think its gonna be around for years? Maybe a few, but then with technological change and generation drifts Facebook and other similar networking sites will be nothing more than that like your first big party

If You Don’t Have Anything Nice To Say….

I believe everyone has a right to a verbal opinion.

 However, I believe that right can be lost when the opinion is meant to intentionally cause a negative effect to the audience and/or the individuals within hearing distance of the speaker.  By negative, I mean anything that offends, provokes or is even forced upon others.  Usually, anything within this type of category is intimidation and its nothing more than plain ignorance with a lost sense of respect.

I don’t understand how our country, which I am proud to be apart of, has such a thing as free speech, and yet,  hate groups exist from the KKK to even religious chapters that have such influence and intimidation on others, have also been soley responsible for some of the most unforgivable violence across our nation that includes hate crimes, bombings, and even harmful acts from lost morals.

What is interesting to think about is how media advertisements have some kind of fine print that informs the buyer about the product.  For example, “results may vary” and ”experience may change.”  The interesting part is that just like the ad, the speaker of ignorant speech is trying to sell you something where indeed the” results may vary.”  The nation has programs designed to put restraint on channels of media for the public but I think it should expand to the individual who is exposed to the public on a frequent basis. 

I don’t think my view is extreme but it is different and when the weight of my view is compared to views like ignorant speech that negatively affects a larger whole, which would the world be better off without? The old world is just that: old, the world keeps spinning, time is always changing, and the only thing that seems constant is change. So shouldn’t the old ideas change as well?

The Apple thrown @ The Windows

From the late 70′s, these two company giants dominated the industry like no others. 

But not necessarily in the same field.  

Apple primary focus was over the computer hardware.  IBM or “Big Blue” turned down the idea of the familly downsized computer.  Giving family access to computers for personal use created the “PC”.  This idea was new and ridiculed because no one really believed that there would ever be a functional use for a pc of that size and computers were also seen as a complex piece of equipment that the average family could not comprehend. 

There was a missing piece for this equation and it would become Microsoft to fill the gap.

Microsoft, starting out as a Applications company was given the opportunity of making the Mac 2 user friendly and providing a more functional software.

I believe (from my own personal experience) the popularity and success of Apple rises from the early computers it produced, especially in the 90′s.  In primary and elementary school, I remembered using these computers over and over and thats all I ever knew.  With today’s Apple, the success comes from that heritage.  Apple wanted the loyal customer to say “hey I remember this at a younger age, the controls are all the same but the computer has more functions within it now.” Take the bicycle for example, its been around for years and now they’ve changed the look of it, some have become more functional than others but the overall concept is the same.  The designs are flawless and almost second to none.  Today people know that if you’ve got an “iphone” or “itouch”, “ipad”, or “itunes”, you have the newest, baddest item out there.

Microsoft started different and I believe carries on a different goal.  From the beginning with Windows, it just seemed to have more of a business type of use.  All the programs that Windows designed and carries from Word, Excel, Powerpoint, well, it all seems like a use that for any occassion is professional and ultimately structured for presentation.  Microsoft has not changed this delivery of programs to the user but it has changed the user perspective.  From Windows XP to Vista, it seems like Windows is making the PC available in the sense that the average person, family member, man, woman, and child can access their PC and say “My life is just as important for these programs and they are just as easy to use” or in shorter terms, “user friendly.”  The designs for Microsoft carriers is an A but Apple takes the cake.  However, for gaming, no other console has rocked the foundation of video games like the Xbox and being a gamer myself, I backed that up 100% and with products like the Xbox, it really shows the power and confidence of Microsoft to take on not only the computer industry but also to be the newest “player” in the gaming industry that stands tall.

So Here It Is…….My 1st

The videos were quite interesting. 

“Did You Know 4.0″ was a bit of a wake up for me.  I knew there was alot of use and users onilne for social media but at the rate its growing is far greater than I could of ever guessed.  I just thought facebook, twitter, myspace and all the others were just mainly a pop culture trend. That is until, the video showed political uses and others that are getting in on the action.

“The Machines Are Us/ing Us” was an interesting video but I feel I may be missing the complete whole.  My opinion, it  seems as if the internet itself, is a type of artificial intelligence sponge that never ceases but if that is so,  is the internet ever capable to act independently?

This is the moment the world will know that I am not up to speed with bloggers, tweeters, or any other type of online social media programs.  I have a facebook account that has more use than my old dusty myspace account that is in desperate need of termination.   

My personal opinion understands the importance of business, promotions, journalism and other relatable categories’  relationships with these programs (that is the only way I know how to refer to them). However, I just don’t understand how the average person (myself  included) uses these types of blog or tweet websites to their advantage (outside of class work of course).  I just see it as “jumping on the band wagon.” My internet ignorance is not hateful, its just in the dark. 

I look forward to turning the light on for this issue and also using it as a weapon to my advantage in the aggressive world of media and design in this unstoppable force of technological change.