Everyone should post everything, all the time
No, I don’t actually agree with the title of this post, but apparently that is the idea that Fred Wilson has put forth in regards to the future of social media:
every single human being posting their thoughts and experiences in any number of ways to the Internet.
Arrington rebuts that the future of social media is tying all of this disparate information together using data portability and integrating sites with each other via API’s and SaaS in order to enhance user interaction and integration.
The future of social media, I hope, isn’t in more tools to help us spew more content. Instead, we need ideas and technology that can leverage all this available online content (including status and activity streams) to enhance real world social interactions.
I wholeheartedly agree. There will always be a need for additional content on the web. The key to the future of social media is sharing this information across platforms simultaneously and unlocking the interface so that users don’t have to switch between platforms in order to perform a single task, or eliminating the need to duplicate content across platforms.
He also mentions mobile devices as the center of this content universe to both publish as well as consume content, which again, I totally agree. And again, much like social media, we need to get the big boys (Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, etc.) to come to a consensus on operating systems, user interfaces, and how they integrate with the web in order to provide easy-to-use, reliable, and consistent experiences.
It’s a painfully slow and frustrating process, but it’ll get there sooner or later.
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