I realise I’ve been hearing a lot about mobile social networks lately. Most prominent of the lot, or at least of those that I’ve heard of, are twitter and jaiku.

Basically, a “mobile social network” is one that you can take part in, even from your mobile phone. So there go the many hours spent replying to posts in front of your PC. Now at least you can go out and catch some sun and get a real tan, instead of a cathode-ray or liquid-crystal one.

And it’s interesting how much buzz these services have created. There are people predicting the death of twitter while yet others defend its usefulness and claim that it improves their social lives. Others like Mike Butcher, predict that 2007 will be the year of mobile social networking. In fact, the whole industry’s spawned its own little acronymn, MoSoSo.

Personally, I didn’t quite catch onto the concept of this microblogging (tumblelogging?) thing at first. But it seems like mobile social networking could well be the next big thing. After all, twitter (why not twittr really?) is spawning all sorts of hybrid creations, like the twaiku and twapper. I’m totawwy amazed.

Will MoSoSos be the next big wave? Probably. Who knows? There’s already a decent list of upcoming mobile services over on the Wikipedia MoSoSo page. Up to a certain point though, there’ll probably be a shakeout and then we’ll see what’s left.

In other news, SMS remains popular.