Social networking on mobile environment

Abstract

Social networking and social networking sites have gained popularity among internet users during the past few years. Social networks fulfill the need of users to stay connected to friends and other people interested in the same issues. Combining social networks to the mobile environment is a growing interest of mobile device users as it allows the users to be in their online social community despite their mobility. This paper introduces one social networking approach on the mobile environment. The approach is based on dynamic group creation and management in the PeerHood environment. A reference implementation of a social networking application built on top of PeerHood is presented.