Social media sites

Social media is actually a media which is designed for distribution and sharing through social interaction. This media uses internet and other web based technologies to transform ‘one to many dialogues’ into ‘many to many’ dialogues.

Some of the famous social media sites are:

• Orkut
• Facebook
• Tagged
• Linkedin
• Ibibo

The main advantage of social media is it is inexpensive and anyone could access them to publish or get some information. Now it is not compulsory to have a computer to access these social media sites. You could get connected to these sites even from your mobile phones.

Accessing social media sites in your cell phones are referred as mobile social networking. Much like web based social networking, mobile social networking occurs in virtual communities. Most of the networking sites like Facebook and Myspace have started to provide the service in mobile phones also.

People who are addicted to using these networking sites might want to be able to access them regularly. So they can now use their mobile phone which allows them to perform basic Facebook activities like reply to messages, add photos to account, etc.

Tough all the networking sites might not be supported by your phone, it is quiet important to look into cell phone model number to ensure whether your phone has the facility. Facebook is the popular networking site which was supported by almost all phones which has internet facility in it.

Some of the popular phones which support Facebook are:

• Iphone
• Palm
• Blackberry
• INQ
• Sony Ericsson
• Nokia
• Android

Another important networking site is Twitter. Though twitter might not have the same number of users and followers as Facebook or Myspace, it is creating waves with the younger generation now. Twitter also provides the facility for mobile social networking. But the mobile version of twitter falls short of many features and services which the browser based twitter has.

Apart from these networking sites, some other developing mobile networking sites are:

• Dodgeball
• Friendstribe
• Groovr
• Gypsii
• Loopt
• Mozes
• Socialight
• Wattpad

All of these sites have their own specialty and they serve for different purpose. For example, Groovr helps you to find about cool events happening in your area. Dodgeball is centered around the idea of idea of letting your friends know where you are hanging out. It can quickly notify your friends of your location.