The different ways that you can keep track of your friends using the IPhone
The one great thing about the internet, is that it allows you to keep track of people that you have not heard from in a long time. Even better than that, is that it allows you to keep track of people that are in your life now. You may want to share items, where talking on the phone would just not convey the message properly. Sometimes you do not want to meet up at the local bar but you still want to know how the persons day went. You are strapped for time, since you have a proposal at work due, so a telephone call is out of the question as well. So if your friends are all part of a social media web site such as Facebook, all you have to do is post a quick little blurb asking everyone how their day went. Later on, after you have finished your work, you can go back on Facebook and see their answers. If you are not able to be on your home computer or laptop, you can still use your IPhone to keep updated on what is going on with everyone. Every social media web site has an application that you can use on the IPhone. These applications make it so that you can easily access the information on your profile. This means that any messages that have been left for you on that profile, will be uploaded to the IPhone. Let’s go through a couple of them and see whats available.
If you are part of Twitter, then there are a whole host of applications that you can use on the IPhone. The most popular one seems to be the application named Tweetie. It seems to be the one IPhone Twitter application that has all of the features that are available in the Twitter API. But it is not the only one on the list that comes highly recommended. You can also use an application known as iTweets. If you choose these two or another application to use on the IPhone, then you will be able to see the latest updates by your friends on Twitter. Now even when you are on the go, you will never be out of the loop.
If you use Facebook, there are of course applications for it as well. But the best thing that you can do with Facebook, is to either access the site though your Safari browser, or use the official Facebook application for the IPhone. Both of these are good solutions since Facebook has taken the time and optimized their web site to work on the IPhone especially. When you go the site on the IPhone, it will redirect you to a special slimmed down version of the site for you to use. You still have the same features but less of the clutter that is usually there.
And the last social media app that you might want on your IPhone, is part of the newest social media web craze. It is of course, Foursquare. Foursquare has an app for every major cell phone out there. With Foursquare, you will get updates on where your friends are at a certain times of the day. This application is more of a novelty than a true social media app, but it will let you know the status of some of your friends throughout the day.
These are a couple of apps that you can use to keep updated with your friends status throughout the day. The IPhone was created to bring the best of the web on a mobile phone. With these applications, they inch one step closer to making that happen.
