How do you guys feel about the state of technology and social networks and where do you see things going in the next ten years. I'm still very much in introspective mode since new years and this is one thing that's been on running around my head for a while.
I feel like over the next little bit we'll be taking a step back from things like social networks now that the hype has died down and take a closer look at them. This post is also inspired by the recent Facebook Timeline feature. The way it's promoted just left me with a gross feeling at the idea of charting out my entire life for people to see on Facebook, things like the start of my life would only be shared with family and close friends/significant other.
I think the future is more niche networks with a focused purpose (djtechtools/instragram) and we'll see higher demand for more private networks with easier control of sharing capabilities (posterous).
Also with the internet I think we'll see a shift to some how limit the information we consume from it. Basically just trying to reduce the noise from it. Things like the Flipboard app have the right idea, it displays your info in a very clutter free manner.
These are just my thoughts, as we've seen before technology can take us in directions we could have never imagined.
What do you guys think, where are things headed? What's here to stay? What will go? What's going to be the next big thing?
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