The Social media word for 2010 is…..Localization

Well, congrats to making it to 2010!! We have seen both high and low’s in our economy and in numbers of online virtual worlds, social media stumbles, and under estimating social media’s reach and influence.

We here at Smmee have spoke in the past of the future of the Internet going from saturation to localization. Myspace preceded by Second Life has experienced this last year and is trying to re invent itself. Virtual worlds like Habbo.com and social media platforms like Ning.com have entrenched themselves in their niches and have been successful. Disney is embracing social media and virtual worlds to the point where it is re modeling their theme parks to incorporate it. But where does the future lay?

I believe it will lay in localization. Where users will play online in smaller fields of social media that revolve around who they are in the real world. They will spend far more time in forums that arouse their interests, loves and beliefs. We still see Facebook being the giant whitepages in the sky but it can only grow so far. So taking that in mind take a look at this great article  from I wanna Express with User generated content stats and forecasts and see where you can best put your companies brand online.

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