Journal #10: Neoteric Frontier

The accelerated rate in which this generation’s social networks are growing is illustrious in the sense that everyone has seen, heard or had the privilege to interact with one of the many communication systems. I see the future of social networks being used as much as, or more than, text messaging. I feel as though people will walk around and access communicational systems more because society tends to naturally form its own way of how it wants to communicate. For instance, in the past two decades, communications started with a simple Bulletin Board System (BBS) and from that it has grown into facebook, tweeter, instant messaging, google chat, etc. Each generation comes up with another form of communication. This generation’s form of communication is live streaming text communication. I see the next step will be live streaming video feed as optical lenses are becoming more compact, cheaper and sharper.

Due to the rapid growth in technology, processors are becoming more compact and faster. The next thing I foresee happening is that cell phones will have longer video storage. Currently cell phones only offer users to record short clips. Whereas in the future people will be able to record from their own cell phones live stream without being hindered by short recording life. Just imagine people who want to show news companies live action in real time. All people would have to do is to record the action and then send a message to the news company, such as CNN or the local news station, stating that you have some late-breaking news and they can go live with the real-time footage.

This would be great for people to get out and view the world. Also this would be a unique niche of communication for the younger generation. I think this would become a hybrid of You Tube meeting CNN. Since a lot of people look at You Tube on a regular basis this will only make it grow in another direction. It would be a great thing to see a new social network develop out of live streaming news. The only thing that the FCC would have to worry about is the raw and uncut content that people would record. I think that the changes in social networking would alter forever how we view issues in the world today. This would be a new venue for people to put issues in the public’s face and show that we as a society need to do something about the current situation.