Abstract: A community service of a mobile terminal, and more particularly, an apparatus and a method for managing a user's reaction conveniently by generating a community based on contents compared to a community generated based on a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The apparatus includes a contents information analyzer, an input unit, and a controller. The contents information analyzer analyzes information regarding contents to provide the same to a contents server when registering a user reaction to the contents that are being reproduced. The input unit receives a user's reaction to the contents. The controller processes to transmit the received user's reaction to a community server.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for sharing contents provided based on a social network between members of the social network. A content providing method includes, when a first terminal in a social network requests to use content, transmitting the corresponding content to the first terminal. The method also includes transmitting content use information associated with the first terminal to at least one adjacent terminal in the social network, via the social network. The method further includes, when a second terminal of the at least one adjacent terminal requests to use the same content as the first terminal, transmitting the same content to the second terminal.