●米国のモバイルＳＮＳ現象は依存症も多発！！

　それにしても現在、米国ではＳＮＳ現象と呼ばれるくらいＳＮＳが大流行ですが、携帯電話ＳＮＳも日本と同じように立ち上がり始めています。

　写真はモバイルユーザーの女性が Helio mobile phone を活用してコーヒーショップから写真をマイスペースに登録するシーンだそうです。

関連記事は以下の通りです。
▼ Social networking making mobile push

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"Mobile is hot, social networking is hot, so the combination of the two has led to creation of at least 30 companies in the last year and a half,"

　このフィーバーは日本と同じレベルですね。『モバイルＳＮＳが行く』と言ったイメージ。

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If the sudden, immense popularity of MySpace and other social networking sites on the Web still strikes some as bizarre, the technology industry is clearly bent on extending that puzzling phenomenon to the cell phone as a ripe new revenue opportunity. Mobile manifestations of social networking are springing up as both a cellular extension of existing web sites and communities that exist only on mobile devices. Complicating the discussion is that there's no strong agreement as to what exactly mobile social networking is or should be. Some of the more basic offerings revolve largely around joining chat rooms and searching for new friends to communicate with by text message. There's also a growing focus on mobile blogging and uploading the photos and videos that users capture with the increasingly high-end digital cameras built into their cell phones.

　モバイル独自のＳＮＳの立ち上げもあれば、マイスペースなどと組み合わせたサービスもあり、日本そっくりです。

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"It becomes quite addicting. If I'm driving and I'm in traffic and I get bored, what do I do? I go online," said Warner, whose monthly Helio bill of $125 is more than twice as large as the average cell user's.

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　ＳＮＳ依存症も問題になり始めています。友達と一緒にいても『何時も彼女は携帯電話の画面を見ている、何よ！！』と言う話になり始めています。これも日本とそっくりですよね。

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Numbers like those help explain why wireless companies are so intrigued by mobile social networking. Beyond text messaging and the surprise multibillion dollar business generated by musical ring tones, carriers have struggled to find another big moneymaker to offset their declining revenues from phone calls. Mobile video and music downloads have begun to build a following, but only slowly. Social networking, with its proven allure as a fun way to kill time, may bring a speedier payoff.

それにしても日米共にＳＮＳフィーバーは、携帯電話、社内としばらく続きそうです。

　日本ナレッジマネジメント学会　専務理事　山崎秀夫