Writing a research paper on social media trends allows you to see how it changes year after year and apparently, how it affects the society as well. As it changes, it comes with both the positive and negative effects, which is normal.

Social media today has evolved. It bis defined now as a place for people to market or do business, to simply socialize, and so on and forth. Social media today's main responsibility is to respond to people's social needs in the newest ways possible.

Every year, there are predictions made on how social media will affect the society. As for this year for instance, Ravit Lichtenberg of Ustrategy.com predicts that social media will focus on ten areas, which are as follows:

1. The People
2. Meaning and Value
3. Convergence
4. True Cross-Platform Experience
5. More Social Networks
6. Innovative Advertising Space
7. Organizing “Old” Social Media Ecosystem
8. Connecting with the US and the rest of the world
9. New Social Media Jobs
10. Making Money

These ten areas are what is more likely to take a big part in the changes that will occur in the social media trend this year. Apparently, everything seems to be very evident. There are indeed a lot of occurrences with regards to media trends that focuses in the said areas.

Author:

Jade J. Burke is an advertising degree holder from Texas, USA. She is currently working as an advertising analyst for an advertising firm. Every year, their company comes up with a research paper on the predictions regarding social media trends and how it could affect the advertising industry. Jade is twenty-our years old.