Indeed humans are a social being. They can’t stand the day without talking or meeting with their old or new friends.With the necessity to
meet people and expand their circle of friends, they indulge to chatting, exchanging emails, web social networks and texting. More and more social networks were created just to connect people all around the world through one’s PC and the Internet. Aside from the new softwares created by these social networks company, new medium or tools were also invented to carry out their services to their millions of subscribers. Thus bringing the web social networks a step higher by putting it in a new environment. Now, access to it is not only limited with one’s PC but also with an individual’s mobile phones. It is called Mobile Social Networking.
Mobile Social Networking is a social networking much the same with Web Social Networking, but here one or more individuals meet people either conversing or connecting with one another using the mobile phone. Much like web based social networking, mobile social networking also occurs in virtual communities. The trend now for social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook is to turn mobile. Here, companies such as MySpace, partner with wireless phone carriers to distribute their communities via the default start pages on mobile phone. Advances in software technology have facilitated the existence of these mobile virtual communities with the help of industry wireless network technologies such as SMS, WAP, Java, BREW and i-mode.
With our newest and high tech mobile phones now, coupled these powerful wireless technologies, Mobile Social Networks, the natural way to meet people , will be the next craze in the world.