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There had been talk that social media had been evolving to become a new form of email. I think I subscribe to this line of thought and believe that technology is headed to this direction at least for the next 2 years. I am a living testament to this reality as I am prone to send message across by setting my user status on various social media as method of choice for keeping my contacts in-the-know.

For those who had read my earlier blog on the rise of Twitter messaging - which is now used to send sniplets of information across your network, I have discussed how many have attached their business announcements to this media tracker. This practice of posting status updates is labeled by some internet professionals as email 2.0. It’s a new form of communication; not quite e-mail, more lightweight and more real time.

It is also evolving. Nowadays, these updates are starting to be looking like email - a development from just "what am i doing" slogan it was originally intended for. This phenomenon is tied with the growing usage of texting among mobile users. Most media trackers have applications which extend to send messages to your mobile phones. This reality adds value to status updates as it becomes more real time and extends its reach beyond cyber world.

The next step of development for media tracker is the establishment of an open system where several social networks  links together, the same as it does with e-mail. When this happens, we should be able to see a federated system in few months. I personnally hope we can make this a reality sooner.

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