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Here in this article it is highlighting the ten different ways which the social media in 2011 will change from previous years.

The change on this list that I think most people expected is that social media will be now more super-sized than before. The reason for this is because now there will be more service providers than ever using social networks for something with their company. For example just the other day while reading the NY times, I came across a article about how T-Mobile plans on coming up with a way that you can make calls on Facebook to your friends.

According to the article mobile is becoming the gateway to our world which I tend to agree with even more now with the creation of the Ipad and more smartphones.  Last year was the first year ever in which the sale of smart phones outsold desktops and also laptops.  In addition to this, sales for applications on the Iphone and Ipad hit the 7 billion mark.

Another change we should expect to see in 2011 is more videos being used. It seems to me like  more things are now caught on video than in the past. Things that happen in the subway station you can always find on video such as the rat running inside of a train. These videos taking on phones become a big hit because you can share these videos you recorded on your facebook which is a reason for the 2 million videos shared on facebook in just one month.

Do you think Social Media will change negatively in 2011?

Read the rest of the top 10 here.

Here in this article it is about a Facebook user pretty much leaving a facebook version of a suicide note but not one of her 1,048 friends cared about this and just let her die without ever trying to call for some help. If one of your Facebook friends post a status saying “took all pills be dead soon”, Shouldn’t it just be common sense to try and get help to that person ASAP? In this situation the answer clearly was no as the women who posted this status instead received taunts such as being called a liar and also received a I don’t care attitude from her friends such as saying it’s ” her choice”.

After reading this article it made me think about the number of true friends people really have on Facebook. It’s hard to imagine any one having over a thousand real friends on Facebook which could be a reason why she received some of these negative responses after posting  her suicide note as these comments maybe came from people she does know in the real world.

Why do you think her Facebook Friends did not handle the situation appropriately?

Read the full article here .

In this article  here they are criticizing the negative effects that social networking is having on our generation which is the cause of more isolating in our generation. I do agree that because of the development of social networking, it has lead to less real human interactions because we all communicate through social networking. Even when we don’t communicate through social networking, nobody likes to talk on the phone much anymore so you will see that it is more common for people to be more into texting each other instead of picking up the phone and calling someone which is the authors point that there is more cyber communication and less real human interactions between us.

I believe that social networking hurts the kids who are in elementary school and Junior High School more than it does those who are in their 20’s. The reason I believe this is because they are missing out on the life of a kid and don’t go out and hang out with their friends as much because they are more concerned with being on Facebook on their computer. So in a way they are leaving in more of a cyber world than any other generation because they are all texting or participating on social networking such as twitter.

I actually think social network does more good than harm for our society today. It’s just another form of communicating and it actually means that you are communicating with more people than you were before. Before the development of social networking, we pretty much only got the opportunity to communicate with those people in our phone book but now we are able to communicate with people we have not seen in 10 years. I think that those people who are so critical of social networking just have not accepted the fact that this is a new form of communicating worldwide and are still not used to it.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/if-youth-can-post-its-facebook-status-age-can-too/?ref=facebookinc

While looking through the NY times I found this interesting article about how the older generation is trying to keep up with the younger generation. But from reading this article and to no surprise to me, the older generation purpose of getting involved with Facebook is to keep tabs on their children to make sure they are not engaging in any illegal activities or doing anything that they would not want them to do. There are a number of reasons why older people decide to joined Facebook. Some as I mentioned before joined to keep tabs on their children but there are others who joined to surprise their children or grandchildren in a good way to show that they are keeping up with our generation.

This link is interested because it is showing that even the older generation who probably five years ago could never see themselves getting involved into a social network website but now more and more people in their 50’s and 60’s are signing up for Facebook. They are even going as far as to going to classes to learn the basic in and out of social network website. When I see something like this taking place it just makes me think that just maybe after hearing about how great Facebook is for the last 5 or 6 years that you just end up succumbing to the temptation and decide to make a Facebook page just to see what is all the excitement with Facebook is about. I thin all of us is like this with something in our life. If you continue to hear everybody talk about how great something is, you are going to want to test it out at some point and that is what is taking place with the older adults and Facebook.

In this article written by Jenna Wortham, she is exploring the idea of the fear of missing out and how it affects us now. Are we so dependent these days that all of us who are in the social network world actually undergoes the fear of missing out issue? Do those of us who are addicted to our Facebook and twitter pages feel that if we don’t log on to our homepage for several days that we are going to be missing out on the social world and about what is taking place in our friends or followers life? I think that this much easier said than done because of all of the technology in the world today. Maybe if smartphones did not have applications on our phones for Facebook and Twitter, this would be much easier to do, but now that we are always checking our Facebook on our cell phones, I think that it is much easier to get caught up in the fear of missing out world. We always want to see what new statuses friends posted on their wall, and to see if they added any new interesting pictures for our viewing pleasure.

Maybe we are just too addicted to the social media world and always need to be in touch with that world. Jenna Wortham suggested ideas that we can do to address this situation such as hiding your phone, limiting time on social networks on the weekend, and finally to put your cell phone on silent for long periods of time. I for one actually currently do put my phone on silent and keep it far from me for several hours during my day to avoid seeing my phone blinking because I have a facebook notification or something.

How do you handle the FOMO?