Philippines is one of the countries today that has the most active people in the online world. Each year, the number of Filipinos who are using the internet is continually increasing. From 24 million (or equivalent to 24.5% of Philippines's total population) internet users in 2009, it rose 6% to mark 29.7 million or 29.7% of the total population in 2010. As of 2011, there are approximately 29 million (29.2%) internet users out of 104 million of the total Philippine population, 3.7 million of which are active internet users (Maybe that include me).
Filipinos' online presence primarily involve the use of social media platforms particularly facebook, twitter and youtube, blogging activities and searching information in the web. The engagement to different social media platforms has continued to shape values and culture of the Filipinos that made them to become known in the world as the social networking capital. Social media sites become an avenue for every Filipinos from different parts of the globe connect one another. Likewise, it has become the primary source of online entertainment and markets for every small and medium business in the Philippines.
The infographic, social media usage in the Philippines below shows recent figures of the Filipino population from top social media platforms today. The infographic also shows the social media highlights which conjecture the challenges every Filipinos in the online community are going to face this year and maybe even in the next coming years.
it is no surprise that filipinos are utilizing social media. a great example is twitter. i followed https://twitter.com/rapplerdotcom
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ReplyDeleteThe numbers are quite staggering. The country has been known as one of the most active nation in social media, particularly on Facebook and Twitter. Sadly, the medium is not utilized the way it should be. It would be something that would benefit the business owners. I think that is what many SEO companies in the Philippines are trying to resolve.
ReplyDeleteThis is very true Filipinos love social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
ReplyDeleteDespite being a couple of years old, this blog post and infographic are still relevant today but with different numbers as expected. NoypiGeeks.com recently published an article with regards the same topic so I decided to research what it was like years ago when social media wasn't as prevalent as today.
ReplyDeleteI can then see who is discussing my topic and jump straight into the conversations to add my two cents. tiktok
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