Social networking is gradually becoming popular among people of all ages. It provides a medium to stay in touch with your friends, share photos, take advices from each other on various issues, and check out each other, to familiarize oneself with each other’s status updates from time to time and a lot more, as people log on through their own profiles.

With the growing usage of the social networks, as a form of time pass or even getting to know new people from all over the globe, the need of the hour is to have a device which could help you access the networking sites on the go, so that you don’t need to spend endless hours in front of the computer and wait for the other person to do the same. But this is possible only if you have certain applications or software installed on your phone.

Mobile social networking looks like it will grow at an increasing rate and there are many social network sites that can be accessed from your mobile phone.

• www.Friendstribe.com
This network has been designed such that you can use it from your cell phone through text messaging.
• www.Broadtecter.com 
Here you get to start your own mobile club.
• www.Zinadoo.com
You can stay in touch with your community and via text messages.

There are applications that help you socialize over the various networks from your mobile phone.

• SnailMailr: this helps you send snail mail online. It forms a cheap and a faster way to stay in touch with your friends and relatives.
• Mikigo: this enables online meeting, web conferencing and remote tool support and at the same time share your screen with ten participants in real time over the Web.
• BookPix: it is an internet portal where anyone can place their books, write their own lines and thus publish them on the internet. They can also send them across to their friends.
• Dingbee: this is a web based calendar service that helps you socialize by sharing your events and activities with your friends and to keep you updated about the others too. It follows events according to your interests.
• Topstr: you can share your favourites using this application or even vote for them, suggest them and thus be a part of the community following them.
• YoTwits: by this you get automated feeds for the twitter account you have.
• Moof: it designed for all those music freaks who want to get the whole lot of lowdown on their music collection.
There are social networks like Facebook, Orkut, Twitter and many more, which you can access from your mobile phone, provide you have a phone with GPRS activated. This can be done by simply talking to your service provider and subscribing to internet surfing. If you have it activated, you just then need to sign in to your profile and thus start social networking from your mobile phone.