In the larger context of an ever changing world, “social” itself takes on a different meaning — for all generations past, a “social” setting meant the backyard, the school hallway, the vegetable aisle in the supermarket. And from the middle of last century, the voice from the chorus was one of concern that we were increasingly a culture “bowling alone” — stuck as the end point of a one-to-many form of mass media, from movies, TV, glossy magazines, and even console based video games.

But today, with the growth of the internet, and user generated content, a new sense of “social” is growing — boundless of physical geography, bringing together groups large and small. I needn’t spread the sunshine of the glorious promise of the internet here; however, the fear changes from not being isolated and alone, but instead worrying about the dangers of privacy and identity and authenticity.

Mobility, especially as a part of the context of social software (i.e., not merely the gee-whiz factor of sending mass-media to the handset), empowering consumers to not only access information from anywhere, especially at location-based, context critical moments — but also to communicate, to, in-effect, “publish” from their phone to their family, friends, their “virtual” community online. Not an end point, but a node, in the larger network — and ideally, a network of people and information of their own design.

So, then, “Will mobility jumpstart social skills?” — my answer would be “Yes”, but “social” is an ever changing concept, and humans, as always will adapt to the best of the situation.

“Will it bring more blessing or curse?” And here — the answer is also “Yes”.
Favorite vaguely-relevant reading:
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=14091&ch=biotech
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465090974/002-7298797-7820833?ie=UTF8