Social media have indefinitely conquered all ages –don’t be surprised when your grandmother has been very inclined with the usage of Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and other social networking sites.

Individuals in the mid-50’s which are social media users have increased its numbers over the years. Facebook alone has catered to ages ranging from 60-74; mostly with the purpose of communicating to some relatives and colleagues.

According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, social media users aging from 50 have grown dramatically by 88 percent all over the years while users aging 65 has doubled their numbers.

Overall, 26 percent of the internet users from 50 to 54 have been using Facebook and other social media networks. Researchers found that most of them go into social networking sites get in touch with their former workmates as they find potential jobs or getting ready for retirement and others for research and age related health issues.

They also concluded that people of all ages get inclined to the usage of social media because it bridges the gap among different age brackets. Video connection, uploaded photos and daily updates connect every family and friends regardless of the distance. Younger generations utilize the social media air with professional networking, continuing education and activism.

Data shows that 92 % of individuals from 50 to 64 and 89 % of individuals aging from 65 above uses e-mail on a regular basis. While baby boomers and elder Americans read their news online. And gradual increase on the individuals over 50 which are inclined on using Twitter.

The study also supposed that more Y generation social media network users will grow monstrously in the upcoming years despite the fact that teenagers invented Facebook and 20+ adults have been its pioneer. And the possibility of taking over youth is just as big as the possibility of catching colds.

August 23, 2010 –when catastrophe hit the highways of Quirino Grandstand in the city of Manila, Philippines; an event that broke the Chinese families heart into pieces.

Hopeful and adventurous faces of Chinese nationals have been smothered with shadows of anxiety and grief as they take their last trip –for 8 unlucky travelers –fortunate for some who made it through the valley of death.

Two days had passed after the bloody hostage taking yet comments from Facebook, Twitter and other social media networks were just spicing up casting blame and condemnation from different sides; Chinese and Filipinos.

Facebook page of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III shows different emotions of lost, grief, anger and pain; profanity and hatred occupied mostly of the comment bars. Furious users blew out their disgrace on the president and his Law and Enforcement units; labeling them as despicable, unworthy and lacks proper training.

While angry Chinese citizens on Facebook expressed their hatred by organizing Facebook Fan pages condemning the President. However, few have shown understanding of the bitter event and chose to comment guaranteeing words of mutual relationship between Chinese and Filipino people.

On Twitter, action movie superstar –Jackie Chan reach out a friendly hand on the Filipino community. The action star had just arrived from South Korea when confronted with the sad event. The movie star tweeted this on his official Twitter account:

“I remember the day before in Korea we talked about how people should love each other. We already have so many natural disasters..typhoon, tsunami, everything. Humans should be united and not kill or hate each other”

Despite the ill-fated event his people experienced, Jackie never showed any grudge on the Filipinos; he even offered friendship in a gentle manner.

Overall, the social media served as the last outlet for confused, angry and concerned citizens for self expression and information as the current issue lags out of the online reality and leave scars in the real society.

The speed of social media’s innovation is increasingly progressing. According to Nielsen Online, Twitter even had a record-breaking percentage of 1,382% on February 2009, “registering a total of just more than 7 million unique visitors in the UD for the month”, a statement of David Armano. Facebook even outwitted other social sites especially MySpace. With the status of Facebook nowadays, you may never know how far these social sites can contribute for tomorrow’s occurrence.

In the field of industry, business companies today embrace Social Media’s principles and marketing strategies to maximize their products’ increase. Pam Dyer, writer of Pamorama even stated that “we’re in the midst of a fundamental shift in communication” that’s why there are existing tools applied for social media which, however, results terrifically or slightly. This is based onto what trends the social media can maximize in order to gain the targeted allocation.

The lists below, as written by Gini Dietrich, are the five social media trends.

Video

YouTube has gained lots of subscribers for the past five years already. Watching a video is customary, but posting a video wherein viewers are free to write their comments and reactions is a lot more different. According to Dietrich, its online traffic was greatly affected and even quadruples when she posted a video. How’s that for a change?

Search

How would you like your site to be on the top list when a viewer searches for products on the search engines online? Well, that greatly affects how social media makes this possible. It must be understood how people looks something on the web. As an expert of Social Media, you must know how to go with the flow.

Location

I remember how presidential candidates penetrated Facebook during their campaigns to win for the previous 2010 election. Compared to the election campaign last six years ago, posters of numerous candidates were minimized this year. This is because they did all their operation online—less work, more results!

Mobile

Cash goes beyond than bringing lots of money paper on our pockets and wallets. With the innovation we have today, we can purchase anything what we want with just a scan away! The store can just scan our mobile phones and automatically gets the credit. They will simply deduct the amount from our check account. Isn’t it innovative?

Social Media Policies

These are the policies Dietrich enumerated and must be included in the conventional policies: Be responsible, authentic, and productive; considerate to the audience; respects copyrights; understands community, and more!

Now, reading these trends, what other trends are ought to be considered with?

The 82nd Oscars Academy will indeed never be the same again with the birth of social media like Twitter, Facebook and other social media tools and means. Why would they stay the same when all these are taken into another height and level of awareness?

The Oscars Awards is prestigious at the same bulleted with controversies and issues. Long time ago ‘controversial’ figure will have to wait for the interview request from the media and news network to air their side of the controversy. But now it only takes a flick of a finger and whoa everybody now knows what you can say about the story.

Twitter is really a marvel both for the ordinary people and the stars in Hollywood. The mini-tweets that they can air are mini-representation of the most current emotions and status of their minds. They do not even need the television crews in the land and it only takes an internet connection and all its gadgets to voice out your opinion.

I believe that the stars that receive the award immediately went to open their twitter accounts to shout their latest conquest. The most interesting tweets are from those who did not receive the awards. For I know they would have to make an uplifting tweets.

Facebook accounts of these stars both the winners and the losers would definitely have pictures for the fans to grab. The 82nd Oscars Academy Awards are never as much as covered as it is today. That is a thank you to hundreds of social networks that now exist.

New Year is about to begin 3 days from now and it would be 2010 and everybody seems all excited to it. During New Year mostly we think of our past mistakes that makes the New Year’s resolution tradition. If you have lots of regrets from your online mistakes in 2009 don’t worry because you can still resolve it this 2010. The Social media world is evolving therefore; it does not stick on one particular event alone so there is a chance for you to change whatever mistakes you had before. Mostly, social media tools like Twitter, Facebook or MySpace are being used for business matters aside from communication. Yet, some of the online users do not know that sometimes they hit the wrong button of displaying or updating their status. In order to avoid these things to happen again next year below are some of significant tips to follow.

Following the wrong site accidentally—it is good to follow back those people who also followed you on twitter. But make sure that those people have credible profile. It is because some of them do not give good benefits to your profile especially if you are making Twitter profile for your business. Therefore, an automatic tool that is being used for automatic following is not really a good option.

Sending private messages in public—Facebook and Twitter are known well for instant communication. If we notice we immediately respond on the go when someone is sending us message without thinking that we hit the wrong button. To avoid this, recheck if you are really hitting the right button. Since sometimes it may turn to chaos.

Avoid the habit of responding to email with the Reply all buttons—this is a no-no you should have to avoid this kind of habit. Because there are tendencies that the message wouldn’t suit to the person you are sending with. It would be nice that before you send the message, you would review it again and choose those people you really are genuinely to send about.

If you are just keen enough about your moves online, your business or whatever purpose you have online would be successful.

Microsoft have already decided towards capitalizing this Windows Live Messenger popularity in China in order to launch on a newer service that been known as the MSN Juku which have also been calling as the local innovation upon the development through this MSN China. With the support of these services, it would somehow become lots like the Twitter. In which, it entirely allow several users be able to connect with some other Live Messenger contacts and will continually post on this 140 character messages. Especially that there will be couple of essential visual differences that must be between for both this services and towards Twitter; with that this old messages will now able to scroll down towards the right portion just for an instance this Twitter clone and the Plurk.

But this will still become as microblogging services and for their one local media report that will actually be calling it upon knocking off this Plurk that also become quite essential popular in Asia. With that, Juku that currently be in this beta will entirely brings on several other innovations towards this table that would allow several users be able to play on this games and even win some prizes that would somehow something sounds like this science fiction during the time that it comes towards this traditional feature of shy Twitter. However in some point, this Microsoft have not announce yet in regards to their any plans upon the internationalization of their services and even perhaps positioning for a direct competitor in Twitter.

The World Wide Web was born in 1995 and two years later, news websites followed suit. But it was not until the mid-2000s that social media sites such as MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Digg and a dozen others were the trend. These social media sites are not just source of get-togetherness and hangout pit stops but they are also one’s virtual connection to just about anything under the sun. Think of the tremendous application social media offer.

1. Source of News – In the past, we only regard sites such as CNN.com and usatoday.com as our source of online news. With social media sites such as twitter, we can now get our news all in one page. Just subscribe online news sites and link it to your twitter page and voila! You can have updates every time you click on your twitter page from all of these news sites that you had bookmarked.

2. Doing Business Online – Before 2005, business models were highly traditional. Then came Amazon.com, whose business pattern is imitated by hundreds of online business sites. Then came social media as a platform for businessmen. Simple yet cost-effective. If you don’t have that much capital, all you need to do is link your business site to other websites. You may employ various online methods too to promote your business site. What’s even better is that if you don’t want to buy your own domain, then you may use your blogger or Multiply account as a platform of your business on the Web.

3. Meeting Friends - It’s really a pleasure to meet new friends online, learn and chat with them. But the best and safer way to gain lots of friends online is through social media groups in which you can have access to their real profile. This is practically a group for everyone like for example Facebook; there is a group category for Catholics, Hippies, Russians, Naturist and even UFO existence theorist.

TWITTER started as a mere social network among friends as a place to hang out with and have a break – just like Kitkat. With the immense popularity of Twitter, people have perceived it as a potential business tool which can surely multiply return of investment a hundredfold.

So how does Twitter works as a business tool? Here’s how: Twitter has inked an official agreement with a business-inclined social networking too, LinkedIn. This is the first step. However, Twitter executives have deemed that it is more profitable if the company itself will have its separate business feature. Thus, monetizing a blog post was formed. It is launched just real recently and it is actually still on its beta stage. For Internet suave folks, you may want to use the Twitter business tool in beta as a Contributor.

One such company which is using Twitter as an online advertising tool is Honeywell. Honeywell is a scholarship firm and they advertise their product using Twitter. Other companies which use Twitter as an online business tool are auto parts distributors. These are the ones which are located at the local level.

Word has it that various private companies are slowly catching up with the Contributor feature of Twitter. These companies are the ones which are usually on the verge of collapse with the current economic crisis but thanks to Twitter, they have slowly risen from a potential doom to be even more profitable than they were before the crisis hit America.

As of now, Sony will be incorporating this Facebook to their PlayStation for 3 games that will be consoling in order to join this rival Microsoft upon the addition of this Facebook, for Twitter and as well Last.fm of this Xbox 360. Sony have release on their latest software PlayStation in order to allow several gamers to be able to link on their Facebook accounts for their PS3’s and as well be able to continually share on some updates for their newsfeed that includes trophy upon winning on different games. Aside of that, Sony also keep on promising about the integration of Facebook, but for the meantime this PlayStation owner will now be able to continually check on their updates and even to those their friends who are in the Facebook, Twitter and to some other social media sites that been available by this PS3’s upon building on their browser. With that, the arrival of this Facebook on PS3 will now be following this Microsoft announcing that already been adding this Twitter, Zune, Facebook, and as well Last.fm of this Xbox 360.

In their latest update of Facebook and as well Twitter can entirely be found on this newly added community channeling together their Last.fm of musical channel. The most relevant aspect of this Facebook in Xbox gamers will entirely be able of finding out which of this Facebook friends were been available on this Xbox live. Some other features entirely include this ability of browsing over their photos and as well updating over their status. For this microblogging of Xbox, the gamers will entirely have some access to the entire basic services that will be available on this Twitter that includes searches, for trending topics, and status updates. According to Neil Thompson who is the senior director of this entertainment division of this UK and Ireland and as well the head of Xbox, that this community will be driving on forward and its community will be allowing their pioneer for several ways of connecting on to several individuals through those entertainment that they wanted.

Aside of that, this Last.fm entirely brings on their playlist and as well even personalizing their radio stations towards this Xbox 360 experiences together of building in their Gamer Station especially upon selecting some music towards those Xbox Live community. With this, the Zune gamers will be getting a higher quality of video upon sharing on with those that are already been up to seven friends through voice chatting and as well their avatar integration on this TV screen. For that, Zune will now be joining this Sky Player that already been added to this Xbox. So, one of their first movie treats towards this Xbox owners will now be using this Zune for the chance of watching an exclusive footage from this James Cameron’s that been hotly got some anticipation to their science fiction movie in the Avatar that been available of this day.

Travel agents or anyone engage in associated industries, have lately been offered a present on a golden platter which is online social networking. The travel industries have been driven by kind utterance of mouth and comparable forms of personal communication. Twitter, Facebook, and other online social networking methods are good example for Internet Marketing in regards with travel and tourism.

Now a day Facebook is an outstanding example. You can create a Facebook Business Page or group that executes a variety of tasks for you. You have a possibility to “yielding sell”. Lucky for us, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, and all other online social networking make it simple to expand “them” to include millions.

When I take a research on Google I found that these days, traveling by air to other countries are easier than you can end your thoughts. Plus there are literally thousands of destinations in over a dozen countries to choose from. Some of the hottest destinations nowadays are Trinidad and Tobago, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Singapore and the United States.

There are many airlines available every day to go to these countries. Some of the airlines which offer real quality service yet have got the most reasonable air fares are Southwest Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Airlines, Continental Airlines and Pegasus Airlines.
Some of these airlines only offer domestic flights within the United States but most of them offer inter-Atlantic flights such as the Southwest Airlines flights.

Lastly, I can really recommend online social networking sites for further information and ideas to make your travel light and easy.