Hispanics Ahead in Use of Check-In Services

12% of smartphone owners use services such as Foursquare to “check in” to certain locations or to share their locations with their friends, finds Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project in a new study. That figure actually represents a significant drop from 18% adoption the last time Pew ran a similar survey last year, although that survey was worded slightly differently. While use of check-in services appears to be down, Hispanics continue to outpace the rest of the smartphone-owning population: in this latest survey, 24% of Hispanic smartphone owners claimed to use geosocial services. (more…)