The Future Tools of Social Media

Social media will soon become much easier with the development of new technologies specially made to enhance the social media experience and make things operate easier. Here are some of the latest technologies that are newly developed and that are predicted to be a good help in the growth and improvement of social media:

• Natural Language Processing – this is similar to Optical Pattern Recognition where the goal is to have computers automatically categorize and understand the requests and needs of their human users. This can cause developments in the future such as applications that can analyze your comments or tweets and give you suggestions on which people or brand for you to follow.

• Open ID – this is an open authentication protocol that allows its users to use one username and password for every site that they visit. Once you are authenticated, there will be a second application called OAuth that would allow you to share information about yourself with the other sites that you use. This also collects data for you so you do not have to fill in redundant information in your profile at each site that you use. This technology would help eliminate the need to fill out registration forms for sites. Aside from that you do not have to remember a lot of passwords for multiple accounts.

• Optical pattern recognition – there is now biometric face recognition technology that is being used by most police and security services to help identify criminals. Google has Neven Vision and is using their technology for its Picasa site. This helped Picasa when it comes to photo organizing. You do not have to tag each photo manually anymore – Picasa can tag the pictures automatically by recognizing the faces in your photos. These technologies are still not at their best since they are newly discovered and there is still room for improvements. But these tools can have a significant effect on how people would use social media and the internet in the future.