This was coming and I think a lot of Filipinos were expecting this to happen. According to 24/7 Wall St the Philippines has the highest penetration of Facebook in the world at 93.9%. Penetration means the total number of Facebook users vs the total number of Internet users in the Philippines. Also, based on this data though we can get a rough estimate of the total number of Internet users comScore has us pegged on. As of this writing the total number of Filipino accounts on Facebook total to 23,424,520. If you add the remaining 7.1% to come up with a number it would be 24,946,241. Pretty close to the estimates of various research companies (25-28M).
Anyway, the question now is if this is a good or bad thing for us as a country. Facebook has a lot of benefits but it also has a lot of cons. It can drastically lower productivity, lower attention span, and serve as the ultimate distraction for the youth. If you’re a parent please make sure to set guidelines for your children on how they use the internet and social networking sites because it can be very addictive.
“question now is if this is a good or bad thing for us as a country. Facebook has a lot of benefits but it also has a lot of cons. It can drastically lower productivity, lower attention span, and serve as the ultimate distraction for the youth.”
This is actually an interesting point.It will definitely give negative effect because of Filipino Mindset. It’s really weird because we are considered as the NUMBER 1 Social Networking Capital of the World but we are still a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY. The Social Media Atmosphere is one of the best ways to provide jobs, market yourself and even put up a business with Little or No Capital at all, unfortunately not everyone has understood it’s power or maybe they know it’s power is unknowledgeable or lazy to act on it.
I am hopefully wishing that since we are NUMBER 1, We learn to utilize the Social Media.
Thank you for the informative post, Carlo.