This was the social media first decade and instead of spending my valuable time on summarizing it in a long exhausting post that will make you read the first 3 lines, get the message and move on I decided to just write a few thoughts on social media’s first decade.
Old media, but I was there thanks to the new one
1. We expose details about ourselves like never before. Think how keen were you to share personal photos just a few years ago and today.
2. Status lines are a great platform for self exhibitionists.
3. There is an inflation of self proclaimed Social Media Experts but most of them never did a social media campaign in their lives. What do they do? Writing post about how to do it.
4. We use more and more the Freemium model, but what will happened if a company like Google, Twitter or Facebook will start charging all its services? Will we pay? The paid access to newspapers that will start next year will be a good experiment.
5. Speaking of newspapers, isn’t that time for social media news agency? The riots in Iran is an example for its advantage over AP and others.
6. Social media and politics don’t blend. Obama’s campaign is an exceptional. Maybe it just needs some more work.
7. Needless to say the what do blend with social media is marketing. In 2010 we will see how the two trends in marketing, real time and localization optimize social media.
8. My news website, Sundsvall Express. I believe and hope that it will be a role model for citizen journalists that want to be an alternative to the old media (even if that media have websites). It’s certainly succeeding were local media in Sundsvall is failing.
9. Social media empowers the costumer. Bullshit. Here and there you can find instances for clever use of social media to get back at commercial companies (like this guy) but they still have the power (and I totally think it’s ok).
I think 9 is enough. Shut down your computers and go socialize for real.
