Social Networking Sites Dominate Mobile Web

Sarah Perez, ReadWriteWeb
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 9:03am

"I didn't really use Facebook that much until I got my iPhone." Sound familiar? That sentiment and variations of it has provided powerful anecdotal evidence over the past several months about the impact smartphones are having on the way people are using the mobile web to connect with others. Through the mobile phone, today's more mainstream users - those folks who don't count sitting behind a glowing screen among their favorite pastimes - have begun to interact on the mobile web, specifically the social web, in greater numbers than ever before. A new report by Openwave provides more evidence of this trend.

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Topics: blackberry cell phone facebook iphone mobile mobile web social media social networking web surfing

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