MobilePlay.com Offers Fun For Phones, Personalized Mobile Site

Here is another example of a social networking site that is created for mobile phone users.  We’re not a huge fan of most of these types of sites because of the sheer amount of useless content, but MobilePlay has a redeeming quality in their robust portal.  You will still find plenty of semi-nude photos of people who couldn’t get their camera phone up and running fast enough, however, MobilePlay.com gives the user the ability to create a somewhat customized home page that is more useful than most (though Plusmo is still reigning champion in our book.)

Setting up the service is simple, and you can easily do it from your phone or your PC.  We went ahead and set up an example page (don’t get your hands too sweaty, we held off on uploading pictures).  The typical options are there, upload photos, find friends, chat, etc.  As we mentioned before, most of these sites are pretty similar, but we do have to give MobilePlay kudos for taking the time and setting up a useful portal.  Of course, you don’t have to sign up for their service to use their portal.

Our biggest gripe with most of these sites is the unmonitored content (we’re not big fans of censorship, but give me the chance to decide, you know?)  For example, when we went to sign up for the service, the home page displays content freshly uploaded to the site.  Sounds like a good idea, right?  Maybe.  But when the first thing that someone sees is a picture of some dude with his weiner hanging out, it may affect their decision to register (then again, maybe that is their target user, who knows.)  Tsk, tsk, MobilePlay…

Our final word?  Check out the portal, pass on the rest, thank you.

Added to the Portals and Social Networking directories.

-wS.