The Top 5 Pure Social Media Trends in 2012

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“Top social media trends in 2012” would find at-least a quarter of the topics from outside the present social media niche up to a good extent.

While 2011 itself experienced the never before growth in tablets and the developments in mobile technologies, in my personal view, they never could be considered directly within the niche of social media. If it were so, we should have been covering all the developments from the companies like HP, Apples’ law suits against Samsung and other tablet makers in different countries, development of sandwich ice-cream Android etc. within the discussion of social media.

In an indirect manner, all the technological developments would surely contribute towards the enrichment of social media trends in 2012.

The trends supposed to dominate social media in the year 2012:

3 Things Facebook has learnt from Google+

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Incipient of Google+ has set Facebook high on its never ending fire of continuous change. Facebook’s latest changes once again prove the level of brooding it has for the Numero Uno spot on the web.

However, these alterations in privacy and other areas in Facebook are seen as an influence of the harbinger we call G+.

Here are the 3 things that FB has updated recently and are DIRECTLY being influenced by Google+:

Facebook Losing the Battle to Privacy Issues

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Facebook’s fad literally came, saw and conquered the world becoming a trend within short span of its advent. It won the hearts of million in no time and started setting new social norms and lingo. Large number of friends is a sign of greater socializing skills, getting more “hits and likes” show your popularity, the “unfriend” feature marks the last chapter of your relationship and the list goes on and on.