Thai Internet users top the world in social network access

BANGKOK: -- Internet users in Thailand spend more than three hours a day glued to their mobile phones, but on a weekly basis , Thai Internet users access social network sites one fifth higher than globally.

This is what a British leading full service market research agency, DJS Research Ltd, revealed this week.

The company is a respected and established market research agency within the industry that carries out projects throughout the UK and overseas. Based in Strines, Cheshire, it is a family owned business which was set-up in 2001 and has grown every year since.

Its research said mobile phones are used most frequently late evening, with more than half (52%) of Thai Internet users admitting to using their device at this time of day.

The study’s findings show that mobile phones are frequently used throughout the day by many: in bed when they wake up (17%); early morning (37%); during lunch (20%); late afternoon (47%); during dinner (17%) and in bed before they sleep (33%).

Collectively, Thai Internet users spend 3.1 hours a day on their mobile phones, compared to the 2.6 hours spent watching television, 1.5 hours dedicated to PC/laptop time and 0.7 hours used on tablets.

On a weekly basis, among Thai Internet users, accessing social network sites is the most popular form of digital activity, with weekly user figures for this type of recreation one fifth higher in Thailand (86%) than globally (66%).

Other popular digital activities for weekly Thai Internet users include: instant messaging or chatting – 62%; playing games via a mobile phone or tablet – 58%; reading news, sports or weather – 34%; watching recorded or on-demand videos online – 29%; researching products before purchasing – 21% and streaming music or radio stations online – 14%.

The study also uncovered that, for Thai Internet users, Facebook (87%) is the most popular social networking platform, ahead of YouTube (75%), Google+ (27%), Instagram (20%), Twitter (8%) and Hi5 (5%).

Line was elected as the most favoured instant messaging platform by two thirds (66%) of Thai Interntet users, surpassing Facebook Messenger (46%), WhatsApp (10%), Skype (10%), Tango (8%) and WeChat (6%).

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/thai-internet-users-top-world-social-network-access/

-- Thai PBS 2014-10-04

Yep, no need to tell me, I can see it from my wife and her kids.

23 hours on the facebook........I think they sleep for an hour.

Not like me that I "rarely" go on the internet to post on TVF...............

Why are you sharing this with us? If you have ANY Thai friends on Facebook you know this already as they have posted 25 photos already today.

Using internet non-stop but still "hub of oblivion"

3.1 hours per day. Who is going to believe that crap.

I think a real number would be around 7 hours.

It's call escapism - the need to escape the reality around them. Its the "panem et circenses" of our times.

Lifestyle? I'd rather have a life.

Surprised it is not 13 hours a day. I went to pick up a friend at the airport yesterday and was standing next to a girl who must have taken in excess of 20 photos of herself and playing with the phone generally. So much so that she missed the person she was there to meet. Sad, sad, sad.

Somehow the Thai's manage to be top in everything. Clearly I have a static computer but no smart phone, tablet or camera, and I thank God I don't after seeing every day hordes of people wandering around with confused looks on their faces whilst they observe a small object in their hands.

I'm friends with one thai girl on facebook, a self confessed facebook addict- with over 20,000+! Pictures on one of her profiles.. Mostly of herself. Good looker tho

Hardly a statistic to be proud of. Maybe they need to spend more time cultivating personal friendships instead of sitting with their phone

Thai Internet users access social network sites one fifth higher than globally. They spend 3.1 hours a day on their mobile phones.

The only person caught reading a book during the survey got run over by a car whose driver was text messaging while overtaking a truck with 120 km/h…

The study’s findings show that mobile phones are frequently used throughout the day by many: in bed when they wake up (17%); early morning (37%); during lunch (20%); late afternoon (47%); during dinner (17%) and in bed before they sleep (33%).

...and 95% when at work.

The DJS article is correctly titled "Thai Internet Users Embrace Mobile Technology, Research Shows"

It is a survey on how Thais use mobile technology. IT DOES NOT STATE ANYWHERE that "Thai internet users top the world in social network access." It only concludes, "For many people in Thailand, the mobile phone is the primary way to access the Internet."

In terms of most internet users regardless of platform access by the seven world regions are #1 North America, #2 Europe, and #3 Oceana/Australia. Asia ranks #6. http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

Facebook is the leading social media website in North and South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India, Australia and Oceana-Asia (including Thailand), followed by QZone in China and V Kontakte in Russia. http://vincos.it/world-map-of-social-networks/

Considering Thailand's smaller population of internet users and total internet penetration by any internet platform of only 26% due mostly from two-thirds of Thailand's population being rural ( ref. a Social Media Blog site), Thailand internet users cannot possibly top the world in social network access.

However:

Bangkok ranks No.1 of all world cities for number of Facebook accounts

Thailand ranks No. 4 in the world for most time spent on social media.

Thailand ranks No.2 in the world (after USA) for countries that viewed PSY's "Gangnam Style" on You Tube.

3.1 hours per day. Who is going to believe that crap.

I think a real number would be around 7 hours.

7 hours if you include the people older than 70, the people who drank themself brain dead with lao kao and the children below 4.

If you cut out these groups you are at about 18 hours per day.

If they would do at least something useful (if possible at all).

But 99% of all their communication, is posting photos, mainly from themselves.

Than:

The new motorbike.

The car

Someone's children

The last somtam dinner

the dogs, the neighbours dogs

The house (every room separate)

Cartoons

Sticker

Simply everything which could not hide quick enough.

I am so beautiful
To me
I am so beautiful
To me
Can't you see

I'm everything I hope for
I'm everything I need
I am so beautiful to me

I think the term "Face"book explains this statistic quite well.