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The evolution of social media began with the first email in 1971 when two computers sitting next to each other exchanged messages. Since that first heartfelt “qwertyuiop,” social media have exploded, becoming a juggernaut powerful enough to topple entrenched dictatorships around the world.

The first email was exchanged in 1971 but it wasn’t until 1978 that social media really got started. The users of bulletin board systems began exchanging ideas on these small networks, connecting with each other through dial-up connections. The first web browsers also surfaced in that same year as early prototypes began circulating through Usenet.

Social media took their next evolutionary step with the launch of Geocities and similar networks in 1994. These networks gave the common Internet user the power to publish whatever they wanted in exchange for advertising space. An explosion of creativity engulfed the Internet as hundreds of thousands of new content creators stormed onto the scene.

The launch of instant messaging software in 1997 scratched an itch many users hadn’t even known they’d had. With AOL’s Instant Messenger users could communicate with each other in real-time, keeping track of their friends and meeting people they might never have otherwise met. This interconnectivity would lay the foundation for future social media developments.

Friendster was launched in 2002 and with it came a wave of copycats hoping to cash in on Friendster’s success. These new social media sites combined the personal creative space of Geocities with the social connectivity of instant messaging. In 2004, Facebook was founded. Started as a student project at Harvard University, Facebook has grown into a massive social media platform with more than 600 million users sharing photos, videos, and anything else that strikes their fancy.

Twitter is the latest, but surely not the last, entrant onto the social media landscape. Twitter’s 140 character limit has proved itself a perfect match for the text- and web-enabled phones and short attention spans of today’s Internet users. By enabling users to quickly send out short messages to massive numbers of followers, Twitter has empowered the average human as few things in history have managed to do.

Social media has come a long way and the future is bound to be full of new ideas to connect the populace. People want to be connected, and social networking has given people the ability to connect with each other. Whatever the future of social media may be it’s sure to be impressive.

Phones have come a long way since they invented the first one. Today telephones do almost everything that we need them to do. They store our friends and family names and numbers. They store our data on removable cards and take pictures and video. They have fast processors and they allow us to operate our devices remotely.

We can use the internet with them. Check our email. Use a GPS to find where we are, or find where someone else is. We can use them as recording devices, personal data assistants. We can connect them to our computers and operate our computers remotely from them.

They are now building them with the fastest processors available, even ones that match our home computers. We can watch movies on them. Draw designs on them. Have international business meetings on them. We can install programs on them and even use them as our personal computers.

With all of the things that we can do with our phones today, it is no wonder that technology is speeding up. They are small and lightweight. They fit in our pockets and do amazing things. Soon they will be replacing the personal computer.

The latest technological advances for phones today are bringing our world into a new age of living. Phones are being designed and built today that quad core processors and large gigabyte cards able to be inserted into them. They are less than five inches and serve as our all-in-one personal computing device. We can play games on them and hold video conferences. We can get to the internet in less than a second with data bandwidths that rivals our home internet service. The newest phones have wi-fi capability that can receive signals at over 11 megabits per second.

We can find any kind of app to install on phones that allow us to do things that only years ago would be impossible. We can scan barcodes with them. Create documents and PDF files. We can transmit data all over the world. We can even get a cover for them that allows us to take them underwater.

We can manage our bank with them. Manage our utilities with them. Open our garage and turn the lights on with them. We can set our alarm systems with them and have peace of mind and security. The technological advances in phones today free us from being stationary. They make our lives mobile and connect us with the world.

The effects on technology on working globally have changed dramatically over the last decade. In the past, it was critical to have boots on the ground to supervise and control a project. Now with real time reporting, up to date, on the spot computer analysis allows a project engineer to monitor and control a project in a secluded desert in Nigeria, while he sits in his office in New York.

This has been made possible as computer processers got smaller and stronger. This combined with advances in the fiber optics, high speed internet and the move to a wireless world. The wall phone is becoming a thing in the past, as cellular phones not only act as a telephone, but also a day planner, alarm clock, MP3 player, game playing, social media connecting device. These changes have allowed meetings to be conducted with the attendees being scattered around the world. Slides can be presented, boards drawn on, questions asked and answered, brainstorming and debates can occur just like everyone is in the same room. It has not only become convenient by allowing all critical team members to attend, but are time saving and cost effective.

If a question occurs on a job site, a digital picture or film can be taken and transmitted to an office located half way around the world. There it can be analyzed and talked about. If more information is needed, they can ask the individual on the job site to take a picture a certain way and transmitted to them within seconds. What used to take days, weeks or months to get, can be done in minutes.

The effects on technology on working globally has allowed families to stay intact and not experience long gaps of separation caused by requirements to be on the job site. Now, many are allowed to even work from home, because they can receive all the critical information on the home computer. Even if they are at the job site, then can stay in constant contact with their families with their cellular phone. With call, pictures and videos their phone allows to them to remain an active role in daily activities at home.

The iPhone itself has become a must-have but finding the right apps to stock up with in the beginning can be overwhelming. The following list of popular apps should help get you started.

Games

• Angry Birds – Nearly everyone is playing Angry Birds in some fashion these days. Currently there are several versions of this extremely popular game to choose from, including Rio, Seasons and the newer Angry Birds Space.
• Words With Friends – Words With Friends is a Scrabble-like social game you can play with everyone from your girlfriend to your tattooist to your Grandmother to complete strangers.
• Drawsomething – Drawsomething has seen recent popularity amongst social iPhone gamers and it’s sure to increase in fame. Soon, all of your friends will be playing if they’re not already. Basically, you’re given a choice of three words. You choose one to draw and your friend has to guess what it is. It’s a fairly simple game that is very addictive, especially if you like word games and drawing.

Music

• Pandora – If you’re familiar with Pandora on PC then you’ll know how this music app works. It is a free internet radio that you can customize channels and play lists on easily.
• Shazam – If you’ve ever heard a song while at a café or in a mall and needed to know what it was, this app is for you. Simply point your phone toward the sound and it will identify the song name and artist.

Photography

• Instagram – You’ve probably seen a lot of Instagram photos popping up on social networks over the past year or so. Its popularity lies in its ability to make the most mundane of pictures look artistic or vintage with filter use.
• Autostitch panorama – This is a handy tool to take beautiful landscape photographs in panoramic view.

News

• AP Mobile – Arguably the best news app for people who want to customize their news by organizing their feeds into topics of interest and local breaking news. This app is brought to you by Associated Press.

Social Networking

• Twitter – Twitter is a pretty obvious choice. It’s a quick way to update the world about your thoughts and activities as well as a way to keep up with what everyone else you’re interested in is doing.
• Facebook – Everyone is on Facebook so having a Facebook app is pretty mandatory if you’re into social networking.
• Bump – For those of you who are social network butterflies, Bump makes it easy for you to add new friends on the go by simply bumping your phone to theirs which causes their information to be sent to your phone and yours to theirs.

While this is obviously just the tip of the iceberg of iPhone apps out there, these staples will get you started as you explore the plethora of options on your own.

Weddings are a great thing. What used to be that everything was done by hand and such has now been replaced with incorporating technology into weddings. It’s rather simple and many are doing this. There are many ways that this can be done. Here are just a few examples of things that you can do.

Many spice up their dance floor with lighting. With the lights like you would see on stage when you go to see that favorite band perform, you can turn a dull space into this. Then, you will also find that they add a nice elegant touch by adding a monogram. This is a spotlight sort of thing that has the initials or something of the sort.

Another way to do this and add technology in a wedding would be to have a slide show of pictures of the bride and groom. This is fun to look at and shows how the two lives are merging into one. People love this and you can see that many find this to be something to do when they are waiting for the reception to begin and more.

There are many types of people who find that they add many things for the people to do at their wedding reception. For instance, some have kareokee going on. This makes it something fun that everyone can do. Others have something that allows them to capture the moment. This is when they get pictures taken like you would if you were at the mall and such.

During the wedding, they might have lyrics that are to a song that is going to be sung up on screens for everyone joining along. With this, they can put pictures up like they would at a reception. The last thing you will find is that they might have a video recorder going where people can leave a message to the happy bride and groom. There is plenty of room where technology can be used to increase the greatness of the wedding.

If there was one thing that every person in the world wished they had more of it would be time. People try many different tricks and techniques to try and get more time, but sometimes it is these tricks that end up sucking up more time than they saved us. That is only if you don’t know how to properly manage your tools that you use to manage your time.

You need to make sure that you are in control at all times. Don’t let yourself mindlessly depend on technology to do the thinking for you. You must always be aware of the time that you are either utilizing or wasting. Getting a watch, cell phone and a computer or tablet that you know how to work are going to be the first things you need.

Next, you should speak to other people who use technology to automate tasks that in turn makes life easier. Don’t be embarrassed to ask your neighbor how they got their automated sprinkler system set up or your brother-in-law how he remotely records Sundays’ football games. Most people who utilize technology in their favor also have the same joy for spreading the word and explaining to others how you too could sit back in your easy chair while watering the lawn.

A few things you may not have known you could automate, but can with the right technology
*Scheduled water and food dispensers for pets
*Bill pay, and savings account deposits
*Sending out birthday or anniversary cards with your own personal messages written in
*Programmable lights, coffee maker and thermostats

One technique that is underutilized even in today’s tech filled world is the alarm or reminder features on computers, tablets or cell phones. You can set reminders for important tasks: such as paying your quarterly taxes, or everyday events such as taking your vitamins in the morning. Setting reminders to do tasks around the house will mean that not another year will slip by when you procrastinate getting the lawn more blades sharpened, or to send out a happy birthday card to your sensitive aunt who would mope for days if she didn’t receive a card form you.

Make sure that if you do utilize the reminder or alarms on your devices that you provide yourself with plenty, teetering between too much information and allusive clues to the event or task. By setting up an alarm to get your oil changed along with the phone number and address of the garage you can save yourself the time when the reminder pops up on your device reminding you exactly what needs to be done. This way when you are ready to complete the task, you have all the information you need at your fingertips.

Since the late ’90s, consumers have turned to their computers to purchase anything from gifts to groceries. The sheer ease of buying items online has increased buying power more than ever before. Just a quick search and a few clicks later, we can easily shop from the comfort of our homes without blinking an eye.

Major advancements in technology have made this all possible. It starts in the warehouse where merchandise is kept; computers keep track of inventory to provide an accurate record of what’s in stock. When a potential customer browses the website they can then view what products are in stock and available for ordering. After placing an order, it is transmitted to the warehouse where products are collated and shipped to the consumer.

How we pay for items purchased online is something that consumers may take for granted. Most online retailers allow you to save credit card information, making shopping even faster and easier. Customers don’t even have to think about how they’re buying things, they click and they’re done.

Online shopping is not just limited to tangible things anymore; music is also being purchased online almost exclusively. Many musicians have begun to solely release albums for online purchase which is at least 50% cheaper than music released on CDs, making it cheaper and easier for fans to purchase. Movies, e-books, and games are also being purchased online in greater numbers every day.

More recently, with the advancement of mobile phones, customers are able to shop from literally anywhere from their smartphone. By either downloading a specific app or going to a mobile website, you can place and track orders from your handheld device. It’s really amazing how simple and fast it is to shop online and in a matter of a few days, new products are on your doorstep.