Upcoming Social Media Platforms

The South African media has grown over the years. From the simple days of MXit & Migg33 where socialising was just private and personal where people were limited to socialising with those who had their cell phone numbers and those who you were in MXit groups.

Now there are a various number of social platforms where you can share your personal thoughts, opinions and a part of your personal life through Facebook status messages, tweets via Twitter and the oh so popular Tumblr which is a platform where you share photos, videos and music to your followers.   

Now there are a number of other improved upcoming Social media platforms with improved features that make social networking more interesting and more convenient then ever before.                                                  
                                      

No.5 of the Upcoming social platforms I have got you Instagram it is platform where users are enabled to share their pictures and videos to their followers. This platform is mainly used to share pictures of themselves, family, art, food and a whole lot of things. Businesses also use them to sell their products (bucket hats, beanies) and their services (hair salons). Instagram also has have features that enhance pictures and videos.

No.4 of the upcoming social media platforms is Pheed which allows its users to share texts, voice notes, pictures and videos. This platform can be mostly used by artists, musicians who want gain for sharing their videos and pictures. So viewer pay for everything that they view.

No.3 is Pinterest which is basically a virtual scrapbook and planner develop projects and organise events. They can collect Pins (images) and collect Pinboards (images and videos). Viewers can get ideas from here and use their for their own personal use. Pinterest basically allows users to share new and old ideas about a variety of interest including fashion, events, DIY and cooking.
 

 

No.2 is Google+  which enables its users to connect with friends and family. Google+ special features include a User profile which gives information about the user, Circles which is a separation of the users a person has on Google+ which may include colleagues, family and friends, Streams which is a Google+ Timeline that shows the users text, images ad videos then there is the best feature in Google+ which called Hangouts & Hangouts on air which is video conferencing with a maximum of 10 people it also includes sharing documents and scratchboards.

No.1 of the Upcoming Social Networks is Vine. It is a video sharing platform. Users can share videos on their vine pages. It is available on IOS, Android and on windows. It is has special features that include tags, channels, TV mode and playlists. Tags link you to certain hash tags, channels  link you to specialised videos that may include music, dance, animals, comedy science, places and a lot more. Playlists allows viewers to make collect videos that they want to see. TV mode which is the best feature that allows viwers to watch videos in sequence. 

In your opinion do you think these social media platforms are upcoming?
Please do share your thoughts.

ARE JOURNALIST STILL RELEVANT IN THIS SOCIAL MEDIA AGE?

Journalist relevance in this day and age

The answer to that question ladies and gentlemen is yes we still need journalists in this social media age. Journalists play a huge role in informing the world about what is going on around us. They gather and present information that is not available to average people around the world using the media including print media (newspapers and magazines) broadcast (radio and television) and the internet. If journalist were  to be viewed irrelevant there would be a huge breakdown in the media. Newspapers. magazines, radio and television with face number of problems.

                                                        Source: http://jivecommunications.ca/benefits/traditionalmedia

Whereas  social media is a platform to give share our personal opinions about what we hear and  see  through the media. These would include the Oscar Pistorius case, Etolls and the Bring Back Our Girls Campaign, which were all revealed to the public through a journalist. As relevant and as much as the social  media is slowly taking over you should remember that social media is not available a lot of people and you should also remember that if journalist were to be seen as irrelevant there would be a huge gap left. Social media would fail to fill this gap.

Imagine journalist being seen as irrelevant . How would print media and broadcast media survive? How would public relations practitioners survive considering that Public Relations Practitioners and journalist work hand in hand? For a public relations practitioner this would lead to a crisis. No press releases, no press kits, no media releases and definitely no interviews from journalists. All a public relations practitioner is going to have is social media platform that is not fully capable of satisfying the needs of a Public Relations practitioner.



Now let me hear your opinions about social media and journalism.
Are Social Media platforms more relevant than journalist?
Are journalist still as relevant as they were before the existence of social media?
How important are journalist to a public relations practitioner?

                                                                                                                                                      source: conversationprism.com