Bangkok Is Top Town For Facebookers In The World, As Asia Fuels Growth

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Bangkok is top town for Facebookers in the world, as Asia fuels growth

By Coconuts Bangkok

According to Facebook's ad targeting model, there are 6,407,180 Facebook users within a 50 mile radius of Bangkok who are 18 and older.

BANGKOK: -- Bangkok has surpassed Jakarta as the city with the most Facebook users in the world, according to reputable Facebook statistic website Socialbakers.

Currently the Thai capital is home to 8,682,940 users of the social network, surpassing the Indonesian capital’s 7,434,580 Facebookers.

Asian cities rank highly throughout the list – Mumbai is ninth (3,700,460), Kuala Lumpur is 14th (3,328,240), Bangalore is 16th (2,931,460), and Singapore is 17th (2,662,680).

Developing Asian countries like Thailand and Indonesia have provided the most explosive growth for Facebook in recent years, helping to line the pockets of Mark Zuckerberg and Singapore’s most famous expat entrepreneur Eduardo Saverin as the company prepares to file for IPO on Friday.

Indeed, India has the third most Facebook users in the world (45,825,620) behind the US and Brazil, Indonesia is fourth (42,272,040), and the Philippines is eighth (27,088,320), according to Socialbakers.

“For the Facebook platform itself, Asia is wildly important. But in terms of the future of the platform, it is even more important,” Tom Crampton, head of Asian social media for Ogilvy & Mather, said recently. [more...]

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[josephinebloggs]

This is really nothing to be proud about, it's really not.

[sjjmmi]

Facebook Hub

[LuckyLew]

Yup, it is a sad statement

Thai people with nothing better to do

I cannot count the number of ankles I have "accidentally"

clipped from behind because people walking and chatting

on facebook, speed up or move to the side.

Bet the family of the girl who got stabbed to death up in Udon

wishes facebook did not exist

[Skywalker69]

I will never get FB, I hate it.

[rheinwiese]

all my Thai friends have multiple FB accounts. At least 3 or 4. Some up to 10.

Cut that number by at least 50% and you are close to the truth

[givenall]

Especially duing work. Prefetc work ethics, NOT

[thequietman]

we can now expect the rate of teenage pregnancies to go up based on this figure.

[IsaanUSA]

all my Thai friends have multiple FB accounts. At least 3 or 4. Some up to 10.

Cut that number by at least 50% and you are close to the truth

Here are some better numbers:

http://www.socialbak...tistics/cities/

Look at Rio. Nearly 200%, hahahaha.

As an American, I am glad to see our major cities ranked so low in this list (percentage wise).

Edited May 18, 2012 by IsaanUSA

[surangw]

people with no social skills seeking attention.

[Nisa]

all my Thai friends have multiple FB accounts. At least 3 or 4. Some up to 10.

Cut that number by at least 50% and you are close to the truth

Why would they have up to 10 accounts? Note this is users and not company pages.

Edited May 18, 2012 by Nisa

[Nisa]

all my Thai friends have multiple FB accounts. At least 3 or 4. Some up to 10.

Cut that number by at least 50% and you are close to the truth

Here are some better numbers:

http://www.socialbak...tistics/cities/

Look at Rio. Nearly 200%, hahahaha.

As an American, I am glad to see our major cities ranked so low in this list (percentage wise).

With the Rio metro area having over 12 million people (the city proper has over 6 million) and the link you provided saying there is 3.4 million users, that really wouldn't equate to 200%.

In May of 2011 (a single month), American spent 101,720 years of time on Facebook.

The

Nielsen report

profiled the type of Internet user who is most likely to use Facebook. Based on its findings, that person is an Asian-American female between the ages of 18 and 34; she lives in New England, makes less than $50,000 per year, and has at least a bachelor's degree.

http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/1763-time-americans-spend-facebook.html

Edited May 18, 2012 by Nisa

[Nisa]

Bangkok wired and cheap internet access for the masses ... not a bad thing at all.

[soi41]

people with no social skills seeking attention.

So very much like Thaivisa

[phiphidon]

people with no social skills seeking attention.

So very much like Thaivisa

You'll go far, Love it.

[balo]

I can't wait for facebook to disappear completely , like it never existed . Im just waiting for someone to pull the plugs.....

[Fookhaht]

Especially duing work. Prefetc work ethics, NOT

My office has embraced FB, and utilizes it to enhance inter-office communication. We have discovered a previously-untapped communications tool for thousands of our university students. We stay in touch with them throughout the Thai summer. We monitor our students' activities while doing work/study & work/travel internships abroad. During the school year, we have a sub-page for each class and students keep abreast of class announcements and homework assignments.

It's a god-send for educators.

[Nisa]

Yup, it is a sad statement

Thai people with nothing better to do

I cannot count the number of ankles I have "accidentally"

clipped from behind because people walking and chatting

on facebook, speed up or move to the side.

I cannot count the number of ankles I have "accidentally" clipped

Yes, it sounds like Thai people are the ones with a problem.

Edited May 18, 2012 by Nisa

[Nisa]

Especially duing work. Prefetc work ethics, NOT

My office has embraced FB, and utilizes it to enhance inter-office communication. We have discovered a previously-untapped communications tool for thousands of our university students. We stay in touch with them throughout the Thai summer. We monitor our students' activities while doing work/study & work/travel internships abroad. During the school year, we have a sub-page for each class and students keep abreast of class announcements and homework assignments.

It's a god-send for educators.

Some folks don't get modern technology and the power of social media both including as a business tool, networking, advertising or communication tool even with pages like that of Barack Obama that has over 20 Million followers.

With Facebook having over 900 Million ACTIVE users and about to set records with its IPO, clearly these folks are in the minority in their view.

[IsaanUSA]

all my Thai friends have multiple FB accounts. At least 3 or 4. Some up to 10.

Cut that number by at least 50% and you are close to the truth

Here are some better numbers:

http://www.socialbak...tistics/cities/

Look at Rio. Nearly 200%, hahahaha.

As an American, I am glad to see our major cities ranked so low in this list (percentage wise).

With the Rio metro area having over 12 million people (the city proper has over 6 million) and the link you provided saying there is 3.4 million users, that really wouldn't equate to 200%.

200% of internet users, not of the population.

[Nisa]

all my Thai friends have multiple FB accounts. At least 3 or 4. Some up to 10.

Cut that number by at least 50% and you are close to the truth

Here are some better numbers:

http://www.socialbak...tistics/cities/

Look at Rio. Nearly 200%, hahahaha.

As an American, I am glad to see our major cities ranked so low in this list (percentage wise).

With the Rio metro area having over 12 million people (the city proper has over 6 million) and the link you provided saying there is 3.4 million users, that really wouldn't equate to 200%.

200% of internet users, not of the population.

I think you are making an incorrect assumption here in what they are defining as a "User" - It doesn't say anything about internet user and the poll is about Facebook users.

Looking at the site more (http://www.socialbak...ook-statistics/) you can see they say the US has 157 Million Users but the US has 80% of its population online which would equal near 250 Million Internet Users.. Yet the site says the US has a 50% penetration and nowhere can I find on the site does it list the number of Internet Users in any of these areas including the US. Nor do they define what they mean by penetration or give any margin of error or any indication where they are getting their number of even if they are the least bit credible.

But their number of US Facebook users does appear to be fairly accurate .. just no explanation for what the penetration number is or how they are coming up with the number.

Edited May 18, 2012 by Nisa

[phiphidon]

Does anybody remember those halcyon days when people didn't know what you were doing 24 hours a day and couldn't get hold of you at a press of a button?

I'm not a luddite but do not expect me to tell you what I am doing every hour of the day, I'm not that important and your life will continue unaffected (I'll save it for an email or a phone call), especially in the morning before my first cup of coffee.

What comes over these people that suggests what they are doing or their music tastes or their popularity is important enough to inform other people continually.

OK I am just jealous that I didn't think of it and that twa* is selling the idea for millions today but really, people, get over it.

When your next boss asks you why you thought posting videos of your adventures in Pattaya would help your prospects of a position in their company the chickens will have come home to roost.

Which leads me on to my next anti FB rant - Why DO bosses think they have the right to peruse your "private life" even if you have been a dic*head to put it on FB in the first place.

And don't get me started on what any government would like to do with that info.........

Rant Over, I'm here all week.

[JetsetBkk]

people with no social skills seeking attention.

Seeking customers.

[phiphidon]

Especially duing work. Prefetc work ethics, NOT

My office has embraced FB, and utilizes it to enhance inter-office communication. We have discovered a previously-untapped communications tool for thousands of our university students. We stay in touch with them throughout the Thai summer. We monitor our students' activities while doing work/study & work/travel internships abroad. During the school year, we have a sub-page for each class and students keep abreast of class announcements and homework assignments.

It's a god-send for educators.

It's a godsend for dictators too

[phiphidon]

people with no social skills seeking attention.

Seeking customers.

Why would people teliing their friends what they are doing through an open 'ish medium (for whatever reason they feel the need to do so) be seeking customers?

Unless I presume you are talking about companies accessing FB in legal or illegal ways.................

[Nisa]

people with no social skills seeking attention.

Seeking customers.

Why would people teliing their friends what they are doing through an open 'ish medium (for whatever reason they feel the need to do so) be seeking customers?

Unless I presume you are talking about companies accessing FB in legal or illegal ways.................

Why does a company Facebook page be any different than any other internet advertising page? Beyond the fact that Facebook has huge SEO and it allows potential clients to easily interact.

The privacy setting on facebook allow you to have a completely private page with no access to anyone but yourself and having nobody even be able to search for it all the way to completely public with your content being in search engines and everyone being able to post and view to this page ... as well as having privacy settings for just about anything in between.

[Skywalker69]

It´s also Godsend for wannabe dictators.

[phiphidon]

Why does a company Facebook page be any different than any other internet advertising page? Beyond the fact that Facebook has huge SEO and it allows potential clients to easily interact.

The privacy setting on facebook allow you to have a completely private page with no access to anyone but yourself and having nobody even be able to search for it all the way to completely public with your content being in search engines and everyone being able to post and view to this page ... as well as having privacy settings for just about anything in between.

Good Luck with that..........

CISPA has support among the tech giants including Facebook, IBM and Microsoft.........

...............On Friday,Joel Kaplan, Facebook's VP for U.S. public policy, assured users in a blog post that CISPA would allow the social network and other companies to share information with the government about possible cyber attacks, without imposing new obligations to share data with the feds:

"That said, we recognize that a number of privacy and civil liberties groups have raised concerns about the bill – in particular about provisions that enable private companies to voluntarily share cyber threat data with the government. The concern is that companies will share sensitive personal information with the government in the name of protecting cybersecurity. Facebook has no intention of doing this and it is unrelated to the things we liked about HR 3523 in the first place -- the additional information it would provide us about specific cyber threats to our systems and users"................

..........EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation, https://www.eff.org/) , for one, isn't buying it. In a lengthy response to Kaplan's post, EFF noted that the government can share information about cyber threats with companies such as Facebook without

"any of the CISPA provisions that allow companies to routinely monitor private communications and share personal user data gleaned from those communications with the government."

Furthermore, EFF isn't willing to take Facebook at its word:

"Internet users don’t want promises from companies not to intercept our private communications and share that data with one another and the government. We want strong laws that make such egregious privacy violations illegal, that require the government to follow legal process (judicial oversight in most case), and that allow us or the government to sue persons who break the law."

http://www.technolog...bout-you-719091

Major CISPA opponent steps down, jeopardizing White House's veto promise

The House-approved legislation that would erode Internet privacy for Americans might have just bypassed a major hurdle. The White House official who publically condemned CISPA has suddenly stepped down as Obama’s cybersecurity coordinator.

http://rt.com/usa/ne...rity-house-535/

Edited May 18, 2012 by phiphidon

[Nisa]

Why does a company Facebook page be any different than any other internet advertising page? Beyond the fact that Facebook has huge SEO and it allows potential clients to easily interact.

The privacy setting on facebook allow you to have a completely private page with no access to anyone but yourself and having nobody even be able to search for it all the way to completely public with your content being in search engines and everyone being able to post and view to this page ... as well as having privacy settings for just about anything in between.

Good Luck with that..........

CISPA has support among the tech giants including Facebook, IBM and Microsoft.........

...............On Friday,Joel Kaplan, Facebook's VP for U.S. public policy, assured users in a blog post that CISPA would allow the social network and other companies to share information with the government about possible cyber attacks, without imposing new obligations to share data with the feds:

"That said, we recognize that a number of privacy and civil liberties groups have raised concerns about the bill – in particular about provisions that enable private companies to voluntarily share cyber threat data with the government. The concern is that companies will share sensitive personal information with the government in the name of protecting cybersecurity. Facebook has no intention of doing this and it is unrelated to the things we liked about HR 3523 in the first place -- the additional information it would provide us about specific cyber threats to our systems and users"................

..........EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation, https://www.eff.org/) , for one, isn't buying it. In a lengthy response to Kaplan's post, EFF noted that the government can share information about cyber threats with companies such as Facebook without

"any of the CISPA provisions that allow companies to routinely monitor private communications and share personal user data gleaned from those communications with the government."

Furthermore, EFF isn't willing to take Facebook at its word:

"Internet users don’t want promises from companies not to intercept our private communications and share that data with one another and the government. We want strong laws that make such egregious privacy violations illegal, that require the government to follow legal process (judicial oversight in most case), and that allow us or the government to sue persons who break the law."

http://www.technolog...bout-you-719091

Major CISPA opponent steps down, jeopardizing White House's veto promise

The House-approved legislation that would erode Internet privacy for Americans might have just bypassed a major hurdle. The White House official who publically condemned CISPA has suddenly stepped down as Obama’s cybersecurity coordinator.

http://rt.com/usa/ne...rity-house-535/

I have no clue what you are talking about or trying to point out. Can you clarify your point?

My comments were a direct response to your comments directed at a poster stating FB is also used to get customers ...

Why would people teliing their friends what they are doing through an open 'ish medium (for whatever reason they feel the need to do so) be seeking customers?

Unless I presume you are talking about companies accessing FB in legal or illegal ways.................

The point was that you don't seem clear on how FB can be used. All this stuff about security is a non-issue to a company trying to promote (advertise) itself on Facebook as there is no need to have personal conversation or confidential communications in promoting your company on Facebook. Not much difference than advertising anywhere on the net accept there are a lot more options and it is less costly (free).

As for government intrusion and privacy ... be it a land line, cell phone, mail, fax, email, internet posting or verbal conversation in a public place ... non are secure from government eyes & ears if they have an interest in you.

Edited May 18, 2012 by Nisa

[phiphidon]

I have no clue what you are talking about or trying to point out. Can you clarify your point?

Well that may be a problem in the future or even now, you not knowing what I'm talking about, I mean. Suffice it to say what you regard as safe as houses and hidden behind Facebooks privacy, isn't. Read the links.