Mobile Social Network - Idris Mootee

The document discusses the rise of mobile social networks. It predicts that consumer demand for social media and user-generated content on mobile devices will increase sharply over the next year. Mobile social networks are also expected to become a $13.1 billion industry by 2011. Additionally, location-based social services using GPS on mobile phones are forecast to grow from 0.5 million users currently to over 20 million users by 2011. The document examines the nature and value of social networks and how they are evolving to become dynamic and context-dependent as more aspects of people's social lives move onto mobile devices.