Four Next-Generation Social Apps That Will Change The Future

Right now, you probably feel no idea can do better than Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, but truth is, just when you think the world has seen it all when it comes to social media apps, a new social app drags you into an innovative world different from the current ones you are familiar with.

One thing you need to realise is, there's always a paradigm shift in the social media app. Prominent apps always struggle to remain relevant, while new ones' ambition is to render the leading social media apps redundant and switch users' loyalty through innovative features - after all, they all competing for the same user market.

Before Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, there were 2go and hi5, but users' memory of these social apps have been erased by the emergence of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

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While many social media users can't see beyond Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, AllNews has done the hard part for you by scouting for social apps that are filling the loopholes on Facebook, Twitter, and other prominent social apps. With the innovative features embedded in these next-generation social apps, the future will be different from what we know of today.

Four Next-Generation Social Apps

Tapebook: In a world where texting is gradually becoming inconvenient, Tapebook is trying to take advantage of that, by offering social media users a platform where you could socialise like Facebook, but through audio and video messages.

Rather than typing your messages, users on this platform use audio and video to post their thoughts or stories and to chat. Also, individuals who want to comment on the post will have to record their voice or record a video to converse; interesting right? that's why it's called "Tape".

Some times, users are in a situation that texting can't express their feelings better than voicing or recording a video. Users can share their travel experiences via video rather than texting, cover songs as well in real-time video recording.

Whisper: This is a social media platform for individuals to share their thoughts or deepest secrets without being linked to it. It's a messaging and chats app that allows its users to express themselves without being recognised as they have hidden identities.

Whisper creates a secret world where its users' identity is not made public for their connections to see. The identity of each user is only known to themselves. The social app enables users to share thoughts they are hiding from the world - only this time, the world knows the secret but doesn't know who shared the secret.

Users on the app can't search for other users' profiles like Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, because they don't have a public profile. Also, during the chat, individuals chatting will be unable to know each other's identity, as it is a secret chat; you can exchange several messages without knowing who is on the other side.

Scenicplots: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are social media apps that depend on users' stories - either fiction or not - from its users, but they don't pay the storytellers except for Facebook that financially rewards recognised news organisation (mostly foreign). Aside from that, individual users are not rewarded.

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That's what makes Scenicplots different. The social media app is a platform that allows storytellers to post their stories in parts and earn at the same time. Scenicplots is taking advantage of the financial gap between the prominent apps and their users. During a period people are in need of multiple sources of income, Scenicplots is offering to be more than just a social app, but also a financial source.

Meanwhile, Scenicplots also assure storytellers copyright to their works, allow various users to collaborate (with meeting) on its platform to build their story into novel or movie script, with plans to offer these stories to streaming platforms - which will enable users to receive royalty payment.

Skyrock: In a world where owning a blog has become a culture but now expensive to have or maintain, Skyrock is a social app that allows its users to create a blogpost and interact with other users on Skyrock. You don't have to own a blog again, but you can create a personalised blog post whenever you feel like it.

With Skyrock, you can create a blogpost whenever you feel like sharing anything, be it entertainment, sports, fashion, lifestyle, or even politics. Skyrock gives its users blog space and a ready-made audience, so individuals don't have to pay website or blog creators to help you set up a blog and promote to attract an audience.

In Conclusion: Note that social media apps don't become relevant immediately after they get created. They take time before they hatch into a global name after which they either overthrow the traditional social media apps known today or get acquired by prominent tech companies. But one certain thing is, the bond between the current prominent social apps and their users will be broken in the nearest future.