It’s evident that most kids have emigrated from Facebook to cyber sites less-frequented-by-adults. This mass exodus has caused the extinction of previous social network sites, and I can’t help but wonder if Facebook is the next dinosaur of the cyber world.
For parents, this constant migration away from adult eyes means chasing down vines, instagrams and snap chats–an exhausting endeavor at best.
Yet for writers, it means one more way to date our writing. And that is never a good thing unless we pen historical fiction.
The bunchy phone cords of my childhood were replaced by cordless phones, then bag phones then cell phones that now know exactly where you are, what you’re doing and who you’re doing it with on any given day. It’s terrifying and could have been a sci-fi novel a handful of years back.
So what does the future hold for the written word in regards to technology?
Do we follow the trend of the day and pray that by the time our novels are published the tech hasn’t left our words behind?
Or, do we create our own, similar technology and use it as stand ins for the real thing?
And what is this social media thing all about anyways, and how will it continue to evolve? Is Candy Crush the future? Will we be wified from birth so that every thought, every memory, every sight we see will be instantly networked to curious onlookers? Will fiction become fact sooner than we think? How do you handle this and other techy conundrums in your life and your writing?
Curious minds want to know!
Words from the Woods 