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Michael Arrington over at Techcrunch has an interesting piece about about mobile social networking (”I Saw The Future Of Social Networking The Other Day“).
A few years from now we’ll use our mobile devices to help us remember details of people we know, but not well. And it will help us meet new people for dating, business and friendship. Imagine walking into a meeting, classroom, party, bar, subway station, airplane, etc. and seeing profile information about other people in the area, depending on privacy settings.
Arrington, who is very positive about the prospects of such an innovation, argues that not only is the opportunity wide-open for such a platform wide-open right now, but that it’s largely being ignored by the two people best-placed to dominate it: Facebook and MySpace.
Anyone who knows me will recall that I’ve long been suggesting that such a product is inevitable. To be honest, particularly given the success of the iPhone, I thought it would already be out by now.
One has to wonder why such an obviously popular item is yet to grace the marketplace.
Arrington adds:
Poking someone on Facebook is great, but “poking” them when you’re in the same bar as them can result in much more immediate social gratification.
And this may be the problem.
Privacy.
Continue reading ‘Mobile Social Networking - The Future For All Of Us, Or Just The Stalkers?’
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