{"id":377,"date":"2010-11-10T01:28:54","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T05:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=377"},"modified":"2010-11-10T10:20:31","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T14:20:31","slug":"datall-show-em-pew-on-geotagging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2010\/11\/10\/datall-show-em-pew-on-geotagging\/","title":{"rendered":"Data’ll Show ‘Em: Foursquare, Gowalla, and the Geosocial"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pew Internet & American Life Project<\/a> has just released new figures<\/a> on the use of what they are calling “location based” or “geosocial\u201d services<\/a> (e.g., Foursquare<\/a>, Gowalla<\/a>, or Facebook Places<\/a>).\u00a0 These services encourage social interaction through the sharing of location-based information.\u00a0 Usage patterns break down along some interesting lines.\u00a0 I have taken the liberty of compiling some tables for you.
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Men are currently twice as likely to use geosocial services as woman.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Similar to trends in mobile Internet access, both Hispanics and blacks use geosocial services more than whites.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Young adult are by far the most active users of geosocial services with rates currently double that of any other category.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the full data is not available, so we can not yet look at interaction effects.\u00a0 But, you can expect an update soon!\u00a0 For curious readers, Pew’s survey question reads:<\/p>\n

Do you… Use a service such as Foursquare or Gowalla that allows you to share your location with friends and to find others who are near you?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has just released new figures on the use of what they are calling “location based” or “geosocial\u201d services (e.g., Foursquare, Gowalla, or Facebook Places).\u00a0 These services encourage social interaction through the sharing of location-based information.\u00a0 Usage patterns break down along some interesting lines.\u00a0 I have taken the liberty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":563,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[513],"tags":[44,623,942,9172,55,10062,10059,2784,9173,10000,14],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data","tag-age","tag-demographics","tag-facebook","tag-foursquare","tag-gender","tag-geosocial-networking","tag-geosocial-services","tag-geotagging","tag-gowalla","tag-pew-internet-american-life-project","tag-race"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}