My predictions post is late. I know. My mail ordered high-fidelity crystal ball turned out to be a Chia Pet. With that disappointment, I gifted the Chia Pet as a Secret Santa gift to a coworker, but that left me with nothing to see into the future. Then I read on the Internet (you know that that is, right) that you could make a crystal ball by turning a geode inside out. Since Indiana was once a large sea. (That’s what “they” told me in school.) I dug me up a geode, boiled it to soften its hard shell and turned it inside out. After shining and polishing, it looks great. Trust me.
To give my new crystal ball some hi-fi, I sprinkled bacon bits over it and prayed. If Jim Gaffigan is right about bacon bits being the fairy dust of food, then the fairy’s might see nice it to dust my crystal ball too. (Yes, that last statement can be offensive, get over it.) So I tested it and predicted that I would wake up Saturday morning. It worked.
So. without further ado, my 9 social media predictions for 2014.
- Social media will still be here throughout 2014.
- There will be a least one numb nut who will write a post telling us SEO, or blogging is dead. Don’t believe it.
- Blogging is not dead. It will be alive for a long time — at least until the Super Bowl.
- Jason Falls of Social Media Explorer will still be ornery.
- Jay Baer will continue to hype Youtility with the same non-hype hype he tells the rest of us to refrain from.
- Google might buy Twitter. (This one is a little fuzzy).
- There will be more social media marketing books published in 2014 than digital PR books. What the hell?
- We will still see the self-proclaimed social media guru make an ass out of him/herself.
- A company will make a social media blunder that will go viral, and we’ll all tweet, facebook, or instagram about it.
These are my social media predictions for 2014. I believe most of them are fairly accurate, except for the Twitter Google thing. We’ll wait and see.