According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 83% of all adults in American own a cellular phone. With all the many uses a phone can do now a days, way beyond just calling and answering calls, you can now access the internet, video chat, or play interactive games. The Pew Research Center does a study on adults and the several uses they have for their phones. Of which is geo-socializing, described as geographical linking with others via your cell phone. With smart phones the possibilities of phones have become wider and easier, Pew finds that 35% of American adults have a smart phone and that 59% of them uses it to connect to social media networks and the such. 55% of those adults use their phones for directions and other means to identify and gain information to different locations.
With all the many uses of phones and there smart phone counterparts, american adults seem to lean towards the geographical aspect of the technology. The phones come equipped with gps, googlemaps, yellowpages or applications like "Where?" There are several applications (aka "apps") that can get you to and from a destination, locate where you currently are with the United States or tell everyone with your social network exactly where you are at any given moment.
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