Mobile Applications Played A Vital Role In Enhancing Social Media Interaction
The wealth of choice in the smartphone market might make you assume that you have to buy the same model as your friends if you want to stay in touch via messaging services and mobile broadband connections. However, social media applications usually transcend the mobile phones on which they are installed, allowing you to connect with large groups of people in an instant to share your thoughts, photos and videos. Since the smartphone revolution, there have been further developments on the hardware side, with tablets like the iPad bringing even more processing power and screen real estate to the table so that social media apps can be enjoyed in full.
Although Apple is by no means in direct control of the applications behind the social media improvements on portable devices, it did give developers a conduit to distribute their wares to iPhone owners when it created the App Store in 2008. Since then, the Android Market from Google and the Windows Phone Marketplace from Microsoft have grown to prominence, making it simple for companies to create social networking apps that allow access to popular sites and services on any modern smartphone.
There are officially licensed apps for major social media companies like Facebook and Twitter on each of the premier smartphone operating systems. However, companies like Apple and Microsoft have been keen to integrate functionality from these two services directly into the phone so that you can tweet and update your status without firing up a separate application. Interestingly, this has not stopped third party apps from becoming successful as alternatives to their officially sanctioned siblings. TweetDeck is a particularly good example of a social media app that actually expanded upon the interaction available in the basic Twitter app and gained a large following because it did a better job.
Facebook Messenger’s arrival on iPhone, BlackBerry and Android devices in 2011 represented another significant change in the way that social media apps were allowing for interaction between users over mobile broadband connections. It is essentially an app dedicated to allowing users to instant message their Facebook friends without having to use their PC or laptop. It also circumvents the need to send threaded text messages and is a more immediate portal for people who want to converse while on the move. Facebook is allegedly planning to introduce video and voice calling from within the app, which would further encourage users to carry out all of their communication through the service.
Of course, there are also social media apps that take advantage of a combination of different sites and services rather than catering to just a single group. A good example of this egalitarian approach is the app, eBuddy, which allows you to link up with friends regardless of their instant messaging platform of choice. They can have an MSN account, an AIM profile or a Yahoo email address and you can still log on and engage them in conversation from a single, easily comprehensible app interface on your smartphone.
Some would argue that the availability of social media apps on smartphones has reached saturation point, after which people will be more concerned with checking their mobiles than actually talking to one another in the real world. Ideally, the social media tools that we have at our disposal will help us strengthen bonds with friends and family and improve our organisation, so there is much good to be found in these technological advancements.
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