Mobile Social Networking: Another Dimension for Communication

In present times, human awareness has advanced to the digital world opening up yet another dimension for communication. With the advent of the mobile phone, it has become yet another tool for communication through the digital medium. In the modern cyber age, it is not essential for people to be physically present in front of each other to socialize. So, a physically visible audience is not the priority, since the cyber world allows people to communicate and socialize digitally with each other.

Social Networking has revolutionized the way people socialize with each other. Social networks have sprung up all over the internet so that people with common interests can group together and share their views. In this manner, social networks provide a more impersonal way to socialize with people whom we may be able to communicate with instantly through digital networks, but may still find it difficult to meet personally once in a lifetime.
Mobile phones have given a new definition to social networking in the form of mobile social networking. An extension to accessing the cyber world through computers, the availability of GPRS, WAP, and hopefully 3G, the mobile phone has become an apt tool for avid social net workers around the world. Computers gave folks the world over the ability to define their social lifestyle through a digital medium, but mobile phones have driven this concept further and have provided a new dimension to the social lifestyles of social net workers.

Yet another development on this front is that mobile companies are tying up with a variety of social networking sites so that they can be accessed through mobile phones. So, now it could be possible to access social networking sites like Facebook or twitter through these new age devices so that you can stay in touch with your friends and online acquaintances continuously. These sites are also specially designed so that they can fit your mobile phone’s relatively small screen.

Social networking has also provided a platform for exchanging ideas without restriction on a global basis without fear of suppression or prejudice. Porting this characteristic to your mobile phone makes it easier and more convenient for people to be avid social net workers given the already existing possibilities through personal computers. With the unlocking of the vast potential of social networking through mobile phones, you can access various sites like Fring, Gtalk, Nimbuzz, Skype, Yahoo! and others to experience this newfound charm of social networking.

At the moment, one can be only positive about what the future holds for us, but social networking through mobile phones will also see its heyday in the days to come.

By: Nihit Aurora

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