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It is difficult to find somebody without any social network profile. Now we don't ask to an address we ask for a contact on web. Social networks became an inalienable part of our life. We search there for new friends, communicate with old, share with events of our life, find a job or clients. We are connected to web at home and in office, and now we use more and more smartphones and communicators because of no wires (as computer has).
Spreading of social networks over such devices has several reasons.
The first one is iPhone, the first handy and at the same time the best mobile device for social networks. Qualitatively new implementation level of mail and browser makes iPhone the leader of mobile traffic. According to the research of mobile market by the company Millennial Media 62% of mobile traffic stream in USA falls at iPhone. Devices under Android came later, but they too add the possibility to social networks to be closer to us.
The second reason is the result of the social networks' struggle for the mobile audience. Because of the popularity of iPhone social networks produce special site versions for IOS. By competing between one and another and simplifying an interface they made for us very handy copies of sites. For example:
iphone.facebook.com,
friendfeed.com/Iphone
m.myspace.com
mobile.twitter.com
The third reason of increasing mobile users in social networks is the rapid growth of web application of this subject on AppStore. Social networks can be broken up into several types:
Social network clients applications that duplicate the functionality of social networks, but economize traffic and provide more conveniences than web site. Integration with mobile device simplifies user's communication, placing and viewing video and photo content. Modern communicators become multimedia combine making up the strong competition to video and photo cameras. Social network clients are: Facebook Chat, LinkedIn for iPhone, Twitterific.
Messenger clients are the message exchange applications for mobile platforms, they have been always popular. It's hardly to calculate the amount of such programs for IOS platform. But certainly the most popular are: AIM, ICQ, Skype, Fring.
There is a part of applications that include cooperation with social networks but based on other functions. For example, photo editing and further theirs publication in network - Mobile Flickr, Kyte Producer ShoZu. The great amounts of games try to engage users with the ability of message exchange or sending their achievements in social networks.
The separate group includes applications this unique functionality. The most interesting are:
SocioSpy an interesting try to remove social networks' borders. Application uniqueness is the people search over 21 social networks, so it allows to find almost every person, view brief and full information about him, preview photo and communicate. The program has its web site www.sociospy.com.
Momento is a very useful program for people who keep a diary. It stands separately because of rich functionality and the ability to work this photo and syncronizediary with Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Last.fm. More detailed information on www.momentoapp.com
iRovr exclusive social network for iPhone.
GyPSii application that combines GPS and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. www.gypsii.com
Of course there are much more mobile App, which have social part, and I cant describe them all in this article. But theirs enormous amount says what communicators and smartphones are more comfortable and useful for people communications than PC. Social Networks will continue compete between each other to win mobile audience, and this is great for us, because of that we can expect new interesting and useful application.
