Ok, if to be completely honest, I consider
myself as one of the skeptics, who can’t wait for the moment of social
networking sites’ decay. Yet, the current deals on the IT market somehow prove
the pessimistic forecasts wrong.
It has
already become clear that the populatity of SM monsters, like Facebook, for
instance, won’t deteriorate at least in the nearest five years. Both the
company’s purchases of Instagram & Glancee and the development of segmented
FB apps for photos, videos, and so on, have sustained its top-position in the
eyes of potential partners and users.
Moreover,
it has recently become crystal clear that smaller social networks, which are
likely to focus on specific audience, have also got their more or less
prosperous future. In particular, the popular service SchoolFeed, offering
users to browse through numerous uploaded yearbooks and find former school
friends, has been just bought by a large
IT enterprise United Online (the parent company of Classmates and other
services).
Why this
deal is rather significant in terms of the social media perspectives is that
United Online has apparently got plans for uniting the mentioned SchoolFeed
with their own service Classmates to create one powerful social network out of
two. Its functionality will certainly expand from simple browsing through
versatile yearbooks or school alumni and will, perhaps, enable to back up the
found friends’ photos somewhere else in the cloud, not just within users’
profiles.
Of course,
it’s hard to predict, whether such function will really be implemented, but if
it is, my personal preferences would go to 4shared. First of all, I’ve already
got my account there and, secondly, because the amount of provided space and a
wide range of disposible features are totally striking.
Well, we’ll
see.
Stay cool)
Andy
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