Future of Friends

Year 2020By: Tyler Wood, Nermin Gerges, Nour Da’as

That is a friend in 2020

Friends will become ANYONE who you come into contact with or even strangers

Includes all colleagues, acquaintances, and real friends or friends of friends

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_ways_social_media_will_change_in_2010.php

http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/173290

Concepts of friends

ANYONE who knows you through someone else (6 degrees of separation) can become a part of your network and be a friend

More friends all around the world

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Future of friends in social media

Distance and Physical walls will matter less

Whuffie is a conceptual social Metric based on what others think of you. In the future this Metric might actually be usable as real money

http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/envisioning-your-future-in-2020.html

Making friends in the futurehttp://blog.hubspot.com/Portals/249/images//HubSpot-Making-Friends.gif

Future Qualities of Friends

Online friends will be harder to be trusted with personal information

Relational activities are done via the internet

Face to face time will be GONE!

http://www.episcopalcafe.com/lead/social_media_starfish.jpg

Quality of friends in the future

Care will

Relational d i s t a n c e and literal distance will

be biggerReal solid friendship will diminish

• http://blog.thoughtpick.com/2009/10/is-social-media-enough-for-maintaining-friendships.html

• http://www.doshdosh.com/the-value-of-friends-in-social-media-websites/

Future of Friends and Privacyhttp://www.cs.virginia.edu/misc/local%20copy/8301-13739_1-9854409-46_files/1055_540x517.gif

Future Side effects http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/images/facebook-cartoon.jpg

Social Networking

IDENTITY is created by the user to become whomever they desire online

STATUS is built online through expansion of the a social network by adding friends casually and liberally

This addition leads to a further reaching

web providing more SOCIAL

CAPITALWikipedia - Online Identity

Social Capital

With the Democratization of Online Social Networks, more social capital leads to more

POWER

So-called friends are used to give the

user more POWER

Purpose of “Friends”

Friends will exist as WEAK TIES

With increased power from a vast network of friends, networking among weaker connections becomes more common

Weak Ties and Diversity in Social Networks

http://bokardo.com/archives/weak-ties-and-diversity-in-social-networks/

Networking Amongst “Friends”

Ideas or products are being spread simply and efficiently across social media sites

Automatically done via Twitter, Facebook, or other social media sites

Friends are added or removed selfishly to SATISFY NEEDS of a user

Connectivity

Friends are more commonly less connected

Friendships are built or destroyed with the simple click of a mouse button

Cutting ties to people doesn’t trigger the same emotional difficulty due to lack of contact with individuals

Global Connections

A vast amount of international connections are made

By 2020 a large majority of the world population will own a MOBILE DEVICE

ACCESS to internet and SOCIAL MEDIUMS is more predominant 30

70

Mobile Device Market Penetra-

tion

Extensive Reach

Smaller gaps between friends of different nations are more common

Having several friends in many different countries leads to a

unified global network

Very Loose Ties

Cross continental friends are very weak ties

Still a point of contact for people to become connected should they ever travel

Enhanced Trust

Genuine information can be retrieved through friends willing to share knowledge

Could be considered a more trustworthy source of information than the general public

Knowledge Sharing

Feedback

Feedback from friends ranks higher than strangers

POWER is derived from the collaboration of individuals fuelling each other

It comes in the form of feedback within a couple degrees of separation

Challenges and Implications

In the future, with technology advancing and becoming more convenient will come more privacy and security issues

The public may have good or bad experiences with this

Experiences

People stalking your profile and finding out information about you

Private content will be accessible by the public

Threats or reputation damage can be an issue

http://sdow.semanticweb.org/2008/pub/slides/SDoW2008-slides-Beyond-Walled-Gardens-Open-Standards-for-the-Social-Web/

Experiences

People may be more selective to accepting friend requests

Bad experiences may lead people to shut down accounts

Social networking companies may suffer losses

Experiences

Good experiences may lead to more and more people joining social networking sites

People may have issues in households because of some information they see on the internet

Identity, security

With the ease of access to technology and mobile devices by 2020, security issues will be a top priority for government regulators

Keeping information private will be a thing of the past – all information will be posted for the public to see and it will be very difficult to keep information

Identity, security

People can create fake profiles

There can be serious reputation damage

Identity theft can occur

People may create profiles of someone nonexistent

http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/12/lindsay-lohan-facebook/

Identity, security

People may hack into accounts and display wrong information on your behalf

You may not be able to access your own account

http://www.pc1news.com/news/0325/fake-profiles-on-fakebook-facebook.html

2020…

These few issues will occur and by 2020 we will see many changes on the social networking that exist today

There may be more sites under development and some sites may have to shut down

Hopefully there will be more ways to make the Internet a safer place than it is

…Could be difficult

The challenges we will face in 2020 will be much harder than the ones we face today

Not only will we have to look after OURSELVES but we will have to look after a much YOUNGER AGE group that will be using the internet and social networks

References

Analysis: Some Facebook Privacy Issues Are Real, Some Are Not: http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/05/11/analysis-some-facebook-privacy-issues-are-real-some-are-not/

Facebook, Privacy, and the Loss of Trust: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100513_facebook_privacy_and_the_loss_of_trust/

The Fake Facebook Accounts: http://www.indiastudychannel.com/resources/116217-FAKE-FACEBOOK-ACCOUNTS.aspx

The Future of Social Networking websites: https://secure.nai.com/us/local_content/misc/threat_center/msj_future_social_networking.pdf

Online Identity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_identity

References

Democratization of Online Social Networks: http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2009/41--The-Democratization-of-Online-Social-Networks.aspx

Weak Ties: http://bokardo.com/archives/weak-ties-and-diversity-in-social-networks/

World Images: http://www.libforall.org/photos/Global%20Network%20Web%20Image.02.JPG, http://kabrenlevinson.com/blog/images/globalnetwork.jpg

Knowledge Sharing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_sharing Future of social media 2010: http://

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