Mobile social network
Regional distributions of these features include Japan, Korea, Australia, Western Europe and US.
This generation brought tremendous changes and made mobile social networks as a part of daily life.
Applications introduced were customized with general interests such as music and mobile-specific content distribution.
Regional distributions of this generation of mobile social networks include Japan, Korea, Western Europe, and North America.
Technologies which made these features possible are Web 2.0 widgets, Flash Lite, OpenSocial, and Open Handset Alliance.
They offer vast number of functions including multimedia posts, photo sharing, and instant messaging.
[6] Along with sharing multimedia posts and instant messaging, social networks are commonly used to connect immigrants in a new country.
While the thought of moving to a new country may be intimidating for many, social media can be used to connect immigrants of the same land together to make assimilation a little less stressful.
Different countries have a certain messenger that is predominant, like China with WeChat, Korea with KakaoTalk, and the US with WhatsApp.
In the case of Instagram and Vine, photos and videos of personal lives are shared to either friends or to the public.
Mary Meeker's KPCB report stated that time spent on short video apps climbed 360% in 2017.
Some mobile social networks, such as Yelp, FourSquare and YikYak, allow users to search for local venues.
[12] Hearthstone is another popular mobile game where players use monster and spell cards to fight each other.
Spotify, a very popular music site, is also used to social networking in a sense that people can see what their friends are listening to at the moment as well.
[15] Other social media music apps include radio stations like Pandora and last.fm.
Recently, mobile social networks has also been used to motivate individuals to stick to their fitness and health goals.
In PACT, individuals make a weekly goal to exercise more or eat healthier and set a monetary amount that you will pay if you don't succeed.
Strava is another mobile social network application that lets you keep track of your activities using GPS and analyze your performance through metrics such as speed and distance.
Using the social network, you can meet other individuals who are also into the same activities as you and find out about new track routes or challenges or other athletic content.
In some apps like letgo, it is easy for the buyer to talk to the seller about specifics about the product or negotiate the price and this assumes a form of social networking.
For instance, there is the case of the Facebook Marketplace where people can sell and purchase products through their mobile devices.
Compared with Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest, Facebook continues to dominate the social media world.
According to the National Safety Council, nearly 330,000 injuries occur each year from accidents where the driver was texting while driving.
[23] The safety issues caused by distractions from mobile social network became more prominent after the release of Pokémon Go in July 2016.
While this game has positive impacts such as getting players to exercise, increasing museum and theme park visitors, and helping single people find dates, it has also led to more accidents.
[25] In Pittsburgh, a teenager crossed a highway to catch a Pokémon and was hit by a car because she was distracted.
In September 2012, the CTIA (Cellular Telephone Industries Association) announced that data service revenues rose 40% to US$14.8 billion.
[1] Social networking once began in the online space, but it has rapidly spread to mobile platforms.
Flat-rate data plans have been prevalent in the US for a number of years but the customer adoption of mobile internet was slow until 2008.
