Is Facebook the Next My Space?

Noticeably we can see that social media is changing rapidly and has vastly changed since its creation. For example, take a look at Facebook alone, when Facebook was first designed is was solely created to be a form of communication between college students, requiring anyone to join the network to have a college (.edu) email address. However, Facebook grew and adapted to allow all users to use this application, and thus rapidly grew in popularity. However, research has now shown that Facebook is actually decreasing among users, especially the younger generation, namely teenagers. Now, I think most of use can remember, another social network that was once widely known and popularity, known by the name of My Space, which is no longer even relevant. Well, my point is that because of the face paced nature of online networking and social media usage, is Facebook the next My Space, will it be soon phased out? If so what is next? What will the next latest and greatest social network platform look like?

My Prediction

I predict that the next latest and greatest craze to social media, the next Facebook if you will, being very visual in nature, much like Instagram, Snapchat and Vine.  And also fast paced like Twitter, catering to our new generations shortened attention spans, therefore, allowing us not having to take the time to actually read through heartfelt time consuming posts, but gather everything we need in a limited number of characters.  I also anticipate the next latest craze incorporating more Facebook like qualities of giving users the ability to establish deeper more intimate relationships with one another through allowing a chat like feature, some sort of messaging feature, or a way to individually make connections with one another.  Therefore, within the next few years, I anticipate that the next latest and greatest social media network will be a hybrid of what has already been done successfully.  What do you think the next greatest social network will look like?