How Social Media Will Look In 2011? Some Predicted Trends.....

Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Social media is no more a new word because it has been utilized by businesses for reaching global customers and also to have an effective communication with them. Not a single business at present can think of ignoring the significance of social media. 2011 sees more advancement toward using social media platform for promoting online businesses.
It is said that Twitter has grown 1,382% in just one year and has got unique visitors of over 7 millions in one month. What trends and techniques will be followed in 2011 regarding social media optimization? Here are some predictions based on facts and figures.

More concerns about privacy:
Because of increasing shift toward joining social networks, privacy concerns will become serious for registered users of different social platforms. As social networks are efficient in helping people to share personal things with their contacts and with global users, so customized experience will become the preference of users.

Social networks will prefer to decentralize:
Facebook Connect, Google’s Friend Connect are one effort toward having a control over personal information and established relationships.

Search engines will need a different treatment:
Google will give prominent place to social media activities. More personalized search will become easy as you wish to see the results from personal networks.

Content management will be the big business:
As content is king in the web world and it is growing at a speedy rate. More concern would be there for sorting out and managing the content.

Social media will improve everyday experiences:
Before going to call your contact you can get an idea what he/she is doing or feeling. Better relationship management through social media- isn’t it amazing?



More high ratings would mean recommendation:
A website that gets higher rating by its users will remain successful in attracting more targeted customers.