Here's why this is such a game-changing time for mobile payments

Paying for things with a wave of your phone once seemed like something out of a science-fiction movie. Today, mobile payments are becoming so commonplace that we don't talk about whether we should be using this technology, but rather what's coming next and how we could be using mobile payments even more.

The topic will be a major focus at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (March 2-5), so MasterCard looked at 19.1 million social media posts to find out what people have been saying about mobile payments over the past year. Check out this infographic for some key stats and trends from MasterCard's third annual Mobile Payments Social Media Study.

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