What is next for online communication?

When we think of all the social networking sites that are available to us on a 24 hour basis; its beyond astounding. Over the course of the past few months, it has come to my attention how involved society is in this online public sphere. A community of individuals from all over the world can communicate when ever, from where ever, and how often they would like. With the continuing addition of technological advancements, it is becoming easer to distance ourselves from traditional face-to-face communication. From our now hand-held devices we can access our online social networks at the touch of a screen. What individuals used to keep private and away from the public eye, has now changed. People can discuss their emotions, attitudes, outlooks on millions of topics and communicate with others in the process. We have created an online sphere where once private issues can now become public. We can share information immediately and obtain it just as quickly. From the avid, myspacer, facebooker, or blogger, all of them are sharing the same withdrawn experience no matter what form is used. Where we obtain our daily news, updates and understandings about the world are simply a few seconds away. Throughout the last three months, I have begun to understand the importance of understanding and giving credibility to this new online era of communiation. What will be next, how will we evolove when the internet becomes so full of information that we will not have enough time to figure it out? It will be interesting to look back on the current state of citizen media and the public sphere in 20 years from now and see which path society chose.