Hey guys, I am a die-hearted user of the internet and by extension, the
word wide web. First there was the net, then the web, then we had blogs,
now we have YouTube and social media. People don't even have to blog or
do websites but I want to know:



1) Have blogs become more popular than regular websites or have we seen
the era of blogging peak? Are blogs going to be outdone by regular web
design with the emergence of html5 and php?



2) Have social media and havens like YouTube eradicated the need to read
when they can just view audiovisual content? My YouTube channels have
more subscribers and visitors daily than my blogs and my Twitter and
Facebook have blown up. Have social media and places like these demeaned
blogs in any way? Should I give up blogging and do reviews and comments
on stuff on social media like Facebook instead?



3? Are users of the web lazier than they used to be and are sick of
reading and just want to "see?" Can you get more out of videos than
blogs? I know people have started to "vlog" but this is essentially
YouTube videos on a blog so why blog in the first place anymore?
Huffpost live do their shows online via videos where you subscribe and
you just watch and read. Sure you want to be interactive but it's just
videos now. Look at Duttyberry, he has transcended blogging/vlogging and
is now doing acting. Do people need blogs anymore and are we just
wasting our time blogging when we can just create websites or Facebook
pages and use Twitter to express our views on TV shows or movies or
Music? Hell, can't we just launch our own YouTube reviews and get info
out plus link viewers to OneDrive or Google Drive to pics?



4? What is the next big thing or what do you think is the next big
thing? It is websites (again)? Is it social media 2.0? How will we want
to consume info and video and pics online? Will the world wide web be
around in ten years and have the effect it has now. I have been a
blogger for six years and a web page creator for fifteen years. What's
going on? What's the next big thing that will last and have the effect
that WordPress or html5 or Facebook or Twitter has?



5) I want to look ahead as i am tired of blogging. I want something new.
I watch shows like Arrow and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. which I blog about
but I need to know if it is worth it to blog about them or do videos on
YouTube, that is, if YouTube isn't declining. Twitter cant get the job
done as it involves short messages and you cant tweet about movies and
movies and TV shows and culture just by tweeting a review. You'll need
more. How will we consume content and not just info in the next ten
years or less? When is the next big thing coming or is it already here
and just started emerging but not reached us yet, big time?



6) We saw how mp3s changed the world of music and how Napster caused
iTunes to eventually emerge and now we buy music online when in 1998 we
were buying CDs and DVDs. Email is kinda lame now as people text or IM
on the go. Plus the cloud storage is going live. We can share info and
synch stuff using the cloud. i know places like TVJ is going to the
cloud and I know places like libraries and large businesses plus public
sector areas are moving towards the cloud. How will that affect the
future of the internet, the web or otherwise?

The next thing is to control your whole life with your smartphone.

Virtual reality porn.

Actually you are probably not that far wrong

 

VR is making a come back, it failed in the past due to cost and lack of processing power etc but now our technology has caught up with the software it's something we are seeing more of.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0212c2s?ocid=socialflow_twitter

Yeah I know. I used to work for EA Games, so I was playing with the Oculus Rift probably about 18 months ago

Sweeeeet lol

I've heard a lot of devs say hey are going into VR gaming. Porn is a stable industry as well

 

I wouldn't worry about predicting the future though. If you want to be on the next wave the important thing is to stay informed. The internet is unlikely to disappear overnight but it doesn't mean you have to blog if you don't like it.

The next thing is to control your whole life with your smartphone.

Agreed

1) Have blogs become more popular than regular websites

A product specialist at Microsoft told me her blog got more traffic than the official product page.

The next thing is to control your whole life with your smartphone.

 

Don't we do that already?