Mobile technology in social media and the present

The Present

Mobile technology in present time is advanced and is not location which was the drawback of past media technology. Today, we have Web 2.0 that evolves online social expression. It is all about social contribution, blogging, photos in flicker, and videos in YouTube. Web 2.0 went social back to youth. Now we are living in 21^st century, we have a lot of social network to communicate with each other which help us to exchanging information etc. In addition, Iphone, smart phone with features like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity have changed the way of living. With the upcoming new location-based networks old location- based networking has gone. The major social networks including Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter have launched mobile platforms and they are now easily accessible through phone in which web service is available. Now social network captured more than 100 million users, who want to share photos/videos to each other. MySpace bought PhotoBucket and Google bought YouTube and now facebook has gone to mainstream with millions of user. Social networking sites are becoming mode of attraction of brands companies as well. Brands are spending big and abandoning web pages today. Twitter which one of the social network really is a totally new concept, we have marketing channel, instant messaging, chat rooms, Data mine, and Customer service departments. I think we all can understand social is going mobile. With the time, new social networking applications are coming like Loopt, Brightkite which allows both locates your friends and now proximity dating. When I have heard about Brightkite, it doesn’t require a smart phone and allows users to tag locations and comments. In addition of those social networks, GyPsii allows you to find out your friend at any time and at any moment at any given location. It is a great website if you want to snap photos and videos with your mobile. Dating and networking is the area of interest but it is ridiculous to say that these are combining today. As we hear Hacker News that hackers are hired by many companies. Privacy becomes a bigger concern between you, your friends, facebook and the third party application. Social networking becoming pervasive as we see “login on facebook” at different sites so advertising and content curation are instantly more targetable but most don’t know what to do beyond this.

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