Social Networks spread and brought up at a very high pace on internet from their starting days. Most of the social network were popular only on internet but with the growth of mobile networks, services came in front offering social networking for everyone through their mobile phones. In fact most of the people feel more comfortable to connect with their friends and families through their mobile phones instead of sitting in front of PC’s. After positive results of rapidly adopted mobile social networks, like twitter and Facebook mobile — mobile social networking is growing its boundaries.

A Good news for Pakistani mobile users is that a new service named “Pring” is out now.

Pring is made by e-Business (Pakistan) and is currently running in open beta and received a very positive feedback from Pakistani mobile community and thousands of people have already joined.

Pring lets you connect with your friends and family, or RSS feeds, Twitter accounts, Facebook accounts, custom applications, premium services all via your handset. It’s aim is to enable everything via your handset in a way that don’t require internet. This works very well because billions still do not have internet connectivity but do have basic SMS and voice access.

What is Pring?

Pring connects from your cell phone anywhere in Pakistan so you can follow updates from your friends via SMS, via the Pring site, via Facebook or Twitter. It’s concept is just like twitter where you follow other people to see their updates and people following you can see your updates. Anyone following you can off course comment on the updates from you and you can do the same with their updates.

In 140 characters or less you can send your text message through your mobile or internet without any cost. Pring is absolutely FREE and charges are charged by the regular message package you have subscribed of your cellular network. Service is very impressive and extremely fast. I’ve been using it from couple of weeks and found no slow downs or message failures in sending or receiving.

Unfortunately Pring is supporting only 3 cellular networks in Pakistan. (Warid, Zong and ufone)
Al three services have unique numbers of their own.

Warid users send their updates on 9536
ufone users send their updates on 414
Zong users send their updates on 2323

But they have promised to support all mobile networks in Pakistan very soon.
(I’ll update you when they’ll start supporting all networks)

– See complete FAQ’s

How it Works?

On Mobile Phones

You can join Pring through your mobile phone by sending an SMS to the numbers written above supporting your cellular network.

Example:

1. Write “hello” and send it to 2323(Zong), 414(ufone), 9536(Warid).
2. Pring will reply you with the following message: “Please register with Pring by replying with your name”
3. On receiving this message you will have to reply with a valid username – Pring will then reply you with the following message: “Greetings user! Welcome to Pring. Sms HELP to get more information.”

You can also join Pring by accepting invitation from an existing Pringer (say Ali)

Example:

1. Ali writes “invite 03215234567” and sends it to Pring.
2. You receive the invitation from Ali: “Greetings! Ali wants to follow your updates on Pring. To register, reply with your name.”
3. You will then have to reply with a valid username to start using Pring

On Web

1. You can register with Pring by going to the “Sign Up” page and filling out the registration form on Pring’s Website.

2. You will have to confirm your email address to complete the registration process. In addition to that, you will also have to provide the confirmation code being sent to you to your mobile number during the registration, to use the full features of the service.

If you are an existing Pringer (on mobile), then you can create an online profile by filling out the form at the “profile for mobile” page.

Basic Commands

You can start using these basic commands by sending them to 2323(Zong), 414(ufone), 9536(Warid).

HELP: Starts the HELP MENU

TOPICS: Starts a menu with a list of interesting topics to ‘follow’

ON: ON, or START turns ALL mobile notifications on

OFF: OFF, STOP, or QUIT turns ALL mobile notifications off

There are dozens of other useful commands for Pring mobile users, View the list of all the available mobile commands.

Visit: Pringit.com

If you're already registered or going to register on Pring, then don't forget to follow updates from TipsoTricks.com on your mobile phone.

To get the updates from us, create a new message in your cell phone and write:
FOLLOW tipsotricks

and send it to 2323(Zong), 414(ufone), 9536(Warid)

You can respond or comment on any update/message by tipsotricks and if you need any type of assistance regarding Pring, We'll be happy to help you on our mobile community. :)