Design of Location Based Social Network Service Model Centering around Smart Phone

Recently, LBS(Location Based Service) is expanding its service areas with the spread of smart phones and the contents of the service are more individualized according to the customer`s needs. Specially, LBSNS(Location Based Social Network Service) is emerging as the most promising service of LBS. This paper introduces a LBSNS model to form a community to share common contents dynamically centering around the place of user`s smart phone. The methodology suitable for implementing the effective management and the automatic update of the community of social network is presented in this paper. In addition, we describe the significant future researches of LBSNS under the upcoming mobile environment.