Future of Social Networking

Following in the on the success and failures of its predecessors, I believe that the social networking sites of the future are going to be much more all encompassing. Think perhaps of a fusion of Youtube and Facebook. A site that not only offers a lot of real time picture, chat, and status updates the social networking of the future will, I believe, also bring together video chat in a new way. While many companies have dabbled in the realm of video chatting, and video conference calls, I think it will be the social networking sites of tomorrow that perfect it and introduce the world to a brand new way of giving feed back. In addition to text comments, friends will be able to leave video comments on a users status, or friends from all over the world will be able to discuss days happenings real time face to face in a virtual coffee shop. The water cooler of old will once again be morphed into a fully digital, fictional place on the web, taking the role of meeting place. To me this doesn't even seem like it is very far off, it seems like this is a possibility for Facebook 2.0. But who knows, perhaps this is not the direction that social networking will head at all, but one thing is for sure, what ever does come will be revolutionary in the way that we interact with one another and the social networking sites of today will be the template of which to build on. To quote Sir Isaac Newton, "If we have been allowed to see farther than others, it is because we have stood on the shoulders of giants."