A survey of mobile social networking

When the rapid evolution of mobile devices, the massive adoption of cell phones by the population and the important growth in social networks came together, the mobile social network was born. This paper goes through the migration of social networks to mobile devices and the new features that they could pro-vide with the context awareness abilities. Also, it covers some architectural notes for the mobile so-cial networks and their limitations. In addition this paper studies some current mobile social networks as Facebook, Dodgeball, Socialight and WhosThat. KEYWORDS:mobile social networks, Facebook, Dodge