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What if the Future of Social Media Feels Like Cable TV?

November 17, 2022 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

The world’s most innovative companies have run out of ideas and now just copy one another. Instagram and YouTube are hoping to be TikTok, and it appears that all three platforms are inadvertently recreating television. Earlier this summer, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri made a selfie-style video (in his apartment!) explaining why his multibillion dollar company […]

Filed Under: Forecasting | Trends, Social Media, Technology and Culture

For Social Networks to Survive, They Must Solve the Problems that They Created

September 18, 2019 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

Screen Addiction, Social Media Addiction

It’s easy to argue that the future of social media will be a linear progression–that we will get more engrossed in social media. This is a probable outcome, but only if you ignore the problems that social media has already caused, and you assume that these problems will not get worse.

Let me highlight three problems that we can can clearly see around us today:

1) The Validation of Vanity
2) Undeniable Addiction
3) Artificial Division

Filed Under: Social Media, Technology and Culture

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