The Social and Mobile Conversations

There are a number of growing trends on the Internet that involve both social media and mobile applications. Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest all have massive audiences spending a considerable amount of time on their website and mobile sites. With this blog post I chose to review the overall mobile and social trends through a few interesting articles I've found on the topics.

Mobile:

Mobile usage is skyrocketing. Don't believe me? Check out some of the trending topics relating to mobile on CNN. The use of Smart Phones in particular has allowed people all over the world to access the Internet without requiring a computer. It is now commonplace to see young children walking around with Smart Phones, or babies being entertained by an ipad or iphone. 

One thing I find ever more interesting is the growing number of mobile Internet users in comparison to computer Internet users. According to a study previewed below, Internet usage through mobile devices surpassed computers in India in 2012. 

Read more on this study at http://www.insidemobileapps.com. 

Social:
The Conversation Prism is a visual representation of the growing number of social media applications out there today. Like mentioned above, the most prominent social media applications are sites like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, but the number these sites grows every day! The Conversation Prism does a good job of visualizing the complexity of social applications. One ways that it does is is through categorizing different social media platforms by topic.The Social Conversation Prism outlines a complex industry landscape in a way that is still easy to comprehend. Check it out below or visit https://conversationprism.com.