Unable to get to a computer to make that new update for your Facebook status? Need to change from “single†to “in a relationship†or from “on holiday” to “back at workâ€? Desperately need to upload the photos you just took from your mobile phone camera onto your MySpace to share with all your friends? Well, soon mobile phone operator Orange will allow you to do all of this and more with its new social networking service which is due out in the UK this summer. So no matter what your summer activities will be, you will be able to keep all of your peeps up to date on your happenings.
As reported by Brand Republic the service will allow users to access all of their social networking sites from one interface by displaying the most popular functions of each site in one place. This means that people wanting to make quick updates will not need to log into each site individually to make the changes they want.
Mike Butcher of Techcrunch notes that the popularity of these types of services and all the mobile apps that are coming out lately will largely depend on the technology in users’ hands. If the user experience is less than stellar then the use of mobiles for accessing social networks as well as using browsers, then the mobile movement may not move anywhere – at least until the technology catches up with the ideas.
But these ideas are not supported by the evidence noted of usage of mobiles to upload content to social networks. In the US a whopping 32% of MySpace users upload content taken on a mobile phone. It’s clear that there is already a connection between sharing content such as photos, ringtones, and more on mobiles.
Soon, you wont even need your computer to do it.
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