Friday, November 6, 2009

Net Savvy

When my nephew got engaged, I knew it via his Facebook (I like the phrase 'I heard it on the grapevine' better, come to think of it). Of course we barraged his mother for not inviting, not calling, not.. not.. not.. Turned out she had very good reasons. Anyway.

I do not have an account on Facebook. But my 50-something year old sister has one and is so proud of it (she never lets us forget that). I told her she only signed up so that she can snoop on her daughter who is studying abroad (whom of course, is on Facebook).

Eirfan has an account. I occasionally would poke around the space looking at the list of his friends. What he writes (I am a concerned mother). I worry he might make friends with you-dont-know-who on the net. Or innocently reveals more information than he should. I never want to underestimate the harm that the net could wreak from crafty evil minds.

According to stats, Facebook is probably the most popular social networking site of all (58% of all social networking visits), next is MySpace (with 31%) (http://www.socialnetworkingwatch.com/all_social_networking_statistics/).


Rank

Country

Number of Facebook users

%growth Jan 09 - Sep 09

1

USA

84,596,240

101.04%

2

UK

20,228,480

35.42%

3

Turkey

13,996,380

76.4%

4

Canada

12,667,220

16.62%

5

France

12,032,020

82.66%

6

Italy

10,903,620

95.21%

7

Indonesia

8,786,920

879.55%

8

Australia

6,591,640

52.23%

9

Colombia

6,488,200

78.60%

10

Spain

6,314,220

143.22%

11

Argentina

6,036,060

167.64%

12

Chile

5,465,740

31.61%

13

Philippines

4,832,040

1136.76%

14

Mexico

4,731,700

228.44%

15

Venezuela

4,223,740

125.36%

16

India

3,980,260

271.54%

17

Germany

3,875,800

208.71%

18

Malaysia

2,619,040

207.97%

19

Sweden

2,587,300

52.49%

20

Belgium

2,557,000

54.41%

21

Hong Kong

2,350,460

61.15%

22

Taiwan

2,257,340

1899.42%

23

Norway

2,193,820

50.66%

24

Denmark

2,100,840

18.27%

25

South Africa

1,899,600

106.43%

26

Egypt

1,896,120

130.51%

27

Greece

1,858,620

85.94%

28

Israel

1,782,700

106.95%

29

Singapore

1,650,660

123%

30

Switzerland

1,634,260

45.54%

Facebook usage statistics by country - top 30 countries - 10th Sep 09 (http://www.nickburcher.com/2009/09/facebook-usage-statistics-sep-09-huge.html)


Malaysia is 18th for Facebook although in terms of total population we are at the 46th place with a total of 25,869,719 people in the country. (My, we are ahead in social networking.)


So. Be careful.

*****

2 comments:

Zana Fauzi said...

You're getting all statistics-y.

Azah Yahya said...

Yeah I know - that's a new one for me.. am sort of trying to get out of that "me" cocoon. Although I know most likely I will not succeed.

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