The next wave of Social Media

Points on how social media will transform in the future is furnished below:

1. A Focus on Relationships: Social media will probably begin to draw the focus back into relationships by emphasizing personal posts, photographs and small, intimate connections over outside content like memes and articles.

2. Diversity of personal posts: Until now, posts have been limited to outside material, pictures, videos and text. As digital technology progresses, people will be hungry for new and interesting ways to share experience. The importance audio will play in social media's future.

3. Users will pay for peace: Premium service will make a splash. This one sounds counter intuitive after all, who would pay f a social media experience when they've all been free up to this point. Two things will happen change that previnus wisdom. First, with a more personal, story-driven experience, customers will want high-quality images, videos and audio files stored for posterity. Second, having a place escape constant advertisements will become very important, something a premium social media experience will offer.

4. Increased focus on privacy: Privacy concerns have plagued social media since its inception, and are only getting m pronounced Expect future social media companies to offer more advanced network and profile privacy than ever before.

5. Video, video, and more video: In late 2016, we saw a major development in social media video when Instagram release Instagram Stories and Instagram Live Instagram's parent company Facebook also released Facebook Live and Messenger Day. The focus on the live format follows in the footsteps of Snapchat and Twitter's Periscope.

6.Less Gamification: One of social media's key components is that it's highly addictive, even going so far as to be described as more addictive than cigarettes. New platforms will try to gear more toward long-term customer wellness as a feature staving off more addictive qualities. They will focus more on the communal quality of social media rather than offer quick hits of serotonin from gratifying and frustrating outside content.

7. Legacy building; As has been said many times, the internet is written in ink. It cannot be erased, and in the future, people won't want it to be. Users will want their social media to existing as an ongoing time capsule, a living record of their lives. Smart platform builders will realize posting shouldn't be a burst about a single moment in time, to be consumed in a few seconds and forgotten about immediately, but as a multi-faceted, interactive diary involving many writers, all telling pieces of their own and others stories.

8. Open to experimentation: The main social media giants are slow, lumbering machines, resistant to change, and unbearably clumsy when they do change. Future models will have seen platforms of the past try different things to different levels of success and will be open to explore. They will try our wildly different ways of managing contacts, befriending people, organizing interface layouts, etc. Facebook has had basically the same layout since its beginning- don't expect that to be the case with new platforms.

9. Mobile-native:  A mammoth advantage new platforms will have is that they about after the smartphone became The future of the internet is mobile, so it stands to reason that mobile native platforms will be built to last.