How can users be persuaded to access their social networks twenty-four hours a day, without ever stopping, using a mobile device? That was the question at the Mobile Social Networking Conference in San Francisco Thursday. So with the assumption that everyone wants to socially network online while, er, socially networking, carriers, manufacturers, and developers met for the two-day conference on Thursday.

“In the future, the phone will do everything,” said Stephen Johnson, senior manager for the corporate strategy group at Nokia. “Social networking itself is becoming more mobile friendly but we’ve got a lot to do to take the Web and make it accessible for mobile.”

And what constitutes socially networking on your phone? Does sending a text message count, or accessing a mobile version of MySpace? According the conference agenda, mobile socially networking can include mobile video, audio, SMS, MMS, picture sharing and publishing, and even voice conversations because, if nothing else, your phone started out as a social device.

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