Karen North special to CNN on Steve Jobs and the Rise of Social Media.

Would Facebook be the mobile phenomenon that it has become without the iPhone making it possible to for us to view content, upload photos and interact from any location at any time? Without the iPhone, would Twitter have become so dominant a communications tool? Lady Gaga tweets messages and pictures to her 14 million Twitter fans, CNN tweets breaking stories to 5.2 million followers, and the Dalai Lama tweets to his 2.5 million supporters. The iPhone was the first mobile device that taught us -- and encouraged us -- to share our words and our images of what we are doing and seeing. Steve Jobs laid the foundation for the social media boom and for social media to continue to thrive and expand. Surely there will be future innovations and refinements. But it's hard to imagine anyone but Jobs connecting cutting-edge technology so effectively to what people want to do in their daily lives. READ THE FULL CNN ARTICLE: