Over the past year, social networking has continued to increase rapidly in popularity, and it now seems that there really is going to be no end to this trend. Hot on the heels of the release of the INQ1 Facebook phone, RIM PR has released the news that the MySpace application for the Blackberry has just reached one million downloads, just one month after the launch of the application.

This phenomenal figure means that people are increasingly demanding the ability to access their favourite social networking sites wherever and whenever they want to. And, as if the Blackberry was not already a large enough distraction, users of the handset now have something else to keep them occupied.

The popularity of such applications, and indeed the number of new handsets offering a social networking function pre-built in the model, means that soon a phone will not be complete without offering full access to all the best social networking sites.

The social networking revolution did not take long to move from the computer to the mobile phone, and it is uncertain where the biggest growth will be. The whole point of social networking is keeping in touch with online networks. Increasingly, people do not want to wait to access their PCs. Rather, they want to check up on their friends whenever they want.

So, we can expect a lot more of these applications, and indeed phones especially built for the purpose, in the near future as the revolution continues to grow in size.