Mobile communication and handheld devices are currently extremely popular, and provide\npeople with convenient and instant platforms for social networking. However, existing social\nnetworking services cannot offer efficient human-machine interfaces or intuitive user experiences.\nMobile users must manually input account information and find targets from search results when\nattempting to add someone to their friend list on social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter.\nAdditionally, mobile users may not be able to identify correct targets because some usernames are\nidentical. Typos may occur during the input process due to unfamiliar identifiers, further increasing\nthe total operation time. To encourage social initiation between mobile users, we design an instant\nsocial networking framework, called SocialYou, to minimize the startup time based on mobile cloud\ncomputing. SocialYou proposes an efficient architecture and innovative human-machine interfaces\nto alleviate the complexity and difficulty for mobile users using handheld devices. In particular,\nwe implement an Android-based prototype to verify the feasibility and superiority of SocialYou.\nThe experimental results show that SocialYou outperforms the existing methods and saves substantial\namounts of operation time for mobile social networking.
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