Wikipedia lets the geo-tagging in

Once I was already writing about geo-socializing as telling your location for everyone, for a reason of creating like virtual community out of internet users with similar interests. Anyways I still would believe that "Man is by nature a social animal" as Aristotel stated.

But maybe it isn't just that anymore? Maybe now we really are approaching or comming into a cyborg stage? Forget the interests, connect to new broadband and catch the feeling of being important an known! Tell the whole world about yourself. 

Now one can do that even through a WIKI!

Have you ever wondered if there are Wikipedia articles about things near you? Well, wonder no more! Today, we present the GeoData extension for MediaWiki, which now provides a structured way to store geo-coordinates for articles, as well as an API to make queries around this information (wiki blog).

 Yes, it is experimental, and it's mostly just for seeing near-by articles. But would such aim remain in this open sphere? I wonder how will this function emerge or 'mutate'  when people will start playing with coordinates and geo-tagging in this Encyclopedia.

geo-socializing: telling everyone your location

For the purpose of security, that natural feeling inside us, a human needs to know his location, in a general sense, with a relation to the environment usually. For the same security purpose, kids are always asked to tell where are they going, where will they be, sometimes the adults as well. But it's just within communities.

In today's web world, new virtual communities have a possibility to upraise, merged from the people you know well, you've just met or have never met. 

How much is it important to tell your location for your virtual community? It's not for security, but for what? Meeting new people, showing yourself or just playing with virtual power? There is some reason, as more then every tenth smartphone user likes to announce his location!

A Pew Internet Project report released today represents at least a modest victory for Foursquare and similar services, finding that 12 percent of smartphone users are checking in via location-based apps. (clickz.com)

The project report called such phenomena geo-social.
It would be interesting to find some research done or to do one on what role plays that geo-socializing?