Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Technology

Technology is growing every single day and is constantly changing and bringing more ideas into the equation making technology extremely fast and gives it the ability to do or make anything that we try to figure out how to make. Technology and its growth brings the world to where it’s at and how it operates.  Once a new technology comes out, they are already working on the next better version of whatever they made, that is why technology is always changing and improving, it will also never stop improving as long as we are here on this earth.
The biggest technology that I can think of that is going to change how we use social media and how it is going to change the way that people communicate over the internet. This technology would definitely have to be the Apple watch. There has been so much hype about this product that I am pretty sure that it is going to be the next big thing that everyone wants and will eventually have if they want to keep up with technology and the way that people function and interact. From the Apple watch it is going to make our messages a lot more relevant, getting your point across short and sweet because it is such a small screen that it located on your wrist so that when notifications or messages come through, you don’t have to pull your cellular device out of your pocket but can just simply check your notifications just from looking down at your wrist.
So many cool functions attached through the Apple watch, you can just talk into your watch and it will write a text message for you or even type in a tweet you would like to send out. This watch will not only tell time but will allow you to monitor yourself and control other devices. It allows you to operate your phone using voice control, also to be discretely alerted to incoming calls, it can make credit card payments, get weather forecast, download apps, so pretty much anything you desire to do can be done through a device attached to your wrist. This device will change social media in the future because it will provide a way for everyone to collect and analyze data on both a personal and global level.
Apple has always tried making their products to be extremely user friendly. People now a days are always looking for the easy route where they don’t have to put much effort but receive the response that they want. The Apple watch is just another device that distracts us from face to face interaction with others but allows us to easily interact, connect and communicate with people close or far away. This watch will be really convenient and allow us to communicate in more ways than ever.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Apps

Ever since the smartphones started coming out back in 1992 is where apps all began. Smartphones have come a long way since then in just a short period of time to becoming very popular and affordable is when apps went through the roof! One of my favorite sayings is “there’s an App for that”. Pretty much any game, platform, music, or GPS has some kind of app on the smartphone which can come to good use. From having a cellular device on our person 24/7 has brought our generation to spend more time online than any other media. Which most of that mobile time is spent on apps, which has brought apps to become the most dominant form of digital interaction. The reason apps are so popular and are used by pretty much everyone now a days is because consumers want the simplicity and focus that apps provide, rather than the variety found in websites.
Mobile apps have changed the way we live forever, and will continue to do so. From changing our relationships and how we communicate with one another. People are so attached to their phones and are starting to become socially awkward and are missing what is happening around them by only focusing on a false reality that comes from all of the social media apps that are out there. “Our app-driven life: Smart-phone apps are becoming the north star for millions of Americans who use them to navigate through life – shopping, playing, reading, dating, learning, and more with their fingertips.” Although these apps and technology are extremely incredible by making things so much easier for us, but at the same time it is making us lazy by providing no reason to leave the house because we can do pretty much any daily activity through our smartphones. Some different apps that I use on a daily basis are Instagram, Pandora, Facebook, Gmail, Venmo, Snapchat, and Google Maps just to name a few. This just shows how much apps are used in our daily lives.


Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Viral Videos

I have always wondered how a video can go viral, as well as wondering how money and ads come into play when a video does go viral. A viral video is the process of making a humorous, catchy film that gets over one million views in just a couple of days. It’s a process of internet sharing through different social media platforms, emails, and the big one would definitely be Youtube. Viral videos become popular through quick films that catch the audience’s attention, whether it be funny or an inspirational video that makes someone want to share that or show it to a family member or a friend to let them see what they saw.
There are a ton of different aspects in getting a video to go viral. Most videos that go viral fall into three different categories which are humorous, promotional, and unintentional. I have noticed that the funniest videos are ones that are not planned out but are people that don’t know that they are being filmed and just acting as themselves. “Having a piece of content go viral is like winning the Internet’s version of the lottery.” Videos going viral is not an easy task, here are a few tips in helping your success of getting your videos to go viral:
Be short and sweet – Our generation’s attention span is getting shorter and shorter by the minute. The video must be catchy from the get go in order to get the audience to continue to watch the film. Make the film positive and upbeat, no one is trying to show their friends something that is negative.