Next generation of Social Networks: Location based social networks

Web-based Social Networks are increasingly becoming one of the key media of communication over the Internet. The potential of these services as the basisto gather statistics and exploit information about user behavior is exciting. With theadvances in the location-aware hardware and software technologies, location-basedsocial networking applications have been proposed to provide services, taking intoaccount both the spatial and social aspects. In this paper, the concept of location basedsocial networks including architecture and functions are provided and a prototype todemonstrate the capabilities and features of LBSNs is presented.