Pew: Only 4% of Adults Use Location-Based Services

Social networking giant Facebook just announced an expansion of Places, its location-based networking feature, but perhaps it should have "checked-in" with Main Street first.

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Social networking giant Facebook just announced an expansion of Places, its location-based networking feature, but perhaps it should have “checked-in” with Main Street first.

A new study has found that only four percent of online adults use location-based services and, on any given day, just one percent of Internet users use the services to share their location with friends.

The surprising results come from a first-of-its-kind report on “geosocial” services by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life study.

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