Dating and Community

Feeling a little lonely? There are lots of ways for you to connect with your friends, make new ones and maybe even find that special someone who shares your passion for chatting or messaging by cell phone. Perhaps you're not lonely at all but just looking for some interesting content to read from your phone. We've listed several mobile blogging sites below.

SMS.ac

The .ac stands for Always Connected. This site is attempting to offer a truly worldwide service and you start by identifying what country you are from. One nice featre is the ability to set up your own free mobile webpage. You can scroll through a list of other sms.ac users and easily add them to your friends list. There is no information on how many subscribers they have but we found a sufficient number of users in the Seattle area to make it fun and interesting. Other services include an extensive collection of ringtones and a few interesting clubs you can join to find like minded people. Essentially all the major carriers in the US are supported. The company claims to have relationships with over 400 operators/mobile networks worldwide. Most of their services will cost you .25c per message received.

MobileHookup.net

The younger, single and adventurous croud will enjoy Mobile Hookup.net. Its just as unabashedly flirtatious as it sounds. The whole point of this site and service is to connect you with singles who want to chat and maybe even hookup. The service costs .30 per message received. They protect your privacy as long as you don't text your personal information to someone else. Have fun but be careful out there you crazy kids!

ClubM8

ClubM8 or Club Mate is cell phone community service that is very simple to join. Just text message the word MATE to the number 33222 and you will receive a reply asking for your name, age, gender and location. From there, they send you potential mates who you can chat with. Watch your usage, however, its .50c for each message received plus your normal outbound SMS fees. Works with any phone from Verizon Wireless, Cingular, AT&T, Nextel, T-Mobile and Boost Mobile

WINKsite

This mobile community is more all about setting up mobile content sites. WINKsite works on any web-enabled mobile phone or PDA running a WML v1.x, xHTML Mobile Profile(WML v2.0) or i-mode compatible HTML (cHTML) browser. They have an extensive list of mobile content on thousands of subjects.

Playtxt

A patent pending mobile social networking site which employs six degrees of separation concept to help you meet new people. This UK based friends network is attempting to support mobile social networking worldwide.