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I cant believe that the holiday season is already here, thus, very soon, we will see on TV and online, Predictions for 2010. So let's say our thread here - what do you predict for 2010 on Social Media. Let me start with mine:
1. I predict social media will have a stronger semantic angle to it.
2. Also, social media will be pushed further and further into daily living
3. the Laggards will be using social media now.

What do you think?

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A short retrospective that ties the thread back to real outcomes and practical next steps.

was right about a semantic tilt: platforms began adding machine-readable metadata at the platform level (Facebook’s Open Graph pushed web pages into a social graph in April 2010), and search engines formalized structured markup with the schema.org initiative in June 2011—both moves turned fragments of social data into interoperable signals rather than isolated blobs. (techcrunch.com)

’s gut that social would “take over” everyday interactions also tracked with measurable shifts. By April 2010 social networks and blogs consumed roughly 22% of global online time, and Facebook’s jump to ~500 million users in July 2010 made the point concrete: social was mainstream, not fringe. At the same time smartphone ownership and social use on mobile rose quickly, and older adults began adopting social networks in much larger numbers—so the “laggards” did start to show up. (nielsen.com)

Practical takeaways (what matters now, when revisiting a 2009 thread): treat content as structured data (use schema/Open Graph where appropriate); design mobile-first, short-form and shareable assets; invest in owning community and conversation instead of chasing one-off virality; and include privacy/data-portability thinking from the start (platforms and rules change). Concrete checklist: add Schema.org markup for products/reviews/events, add Open Graph/Twitter Card tags to share previews, verify mobile load times under 2s, and prioritize community moderation and first-party analytics.

The original instincts in this thread were sound—timing and specifics differed, but the directional bets (semantics, daily integration, late adopters arriving) were the right ones to make for strategy in the 2010s. (search.googleblog.com)

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my guess is social media will take over everything. people will interact via social media or something.

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I do believe social media will eventually be an incorporated digital aspect of our lives, just like people use search engines to start their search experiences. Back in 1992, I used telnet in a non GUI interface!

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