New Social Media Technology

 During the pandemic, I have found myself looking for new ways of entertainment and new ways to connect with my friends. To provide further entertainment to our FaceTime calls, my friends and I have been using apps like Houseparty, Squad, Rare, and even Walkie-Talkie, where you join random people in a radio channel, kind of like Omegle but just for your voice. Now these are new forms of social media that I have discovered, but new forms of social media technology I may see happening is social media apps made specifically for shopping. With Instagram's update, it makes it seem like the once photo-sharing app is now a shopping app and this is driving many people away from using it, apart from the terrible algorithm. I think it would have been better for the company if they made an app specifially for shopping, where users can post their outfits or whatever they have purchased and can post a photo of it, but have clickable links attached to the picture of the item for people to browse. Now I would only maybe see influencers benefit from this the most but this is only an idea.