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Mobile social networking applications

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They deliver the right social service to the right user anytime, anyplace, without divulging personal data.

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                Communications of the ACM  Volume 56, Issue 3
                March 2013
                93 pages
                ISSN:0001-0782
                EISSN:1557-7317
                DOI:10.1145/2428556
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