A prime feature of the developing world is how full of bs a regular day is and how much time one has to waste just doing regular stuff.
Browsing FB would be a godsend.
Philippines tops world internet usage index with an average 10 hours a day
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Re: Philippines tops world internet usage index with an average 10 hours a day
#52This is mostly Facebook since it's zero-rated where most Filipino mobile users are prepaid. Young and old, rich and poor Filipinos are glued to their phones like zombies all day browsing Facebook.
Filipino here. I blame carriers here for making Facebook free-of-charge. Yes, good thing that Messenger let's us send messages for free. But the thing is, we can't see images nor visit links unless you get a data pack/promo or connect to a Wi-Fi. Especially news, people can't see thumbnails or click links so they directly jump to wrong assumptions based on what they see and hear from the comments. Some people just lo…
Can you really blame the carriers, at what point does personal responsibility take over?
Re: Philippines tops world internet usage index with an average 10 hours a day
#53A prime feature of the developing world is how full of bs a regular day is and how much time one has to waste just doing regular stuff. Browsing FB would be a godsend.
What do you mean by 'world full of BS'?
Is it like, people trapped waiting in line for government services? Or something else?
Re: Philippines tops world internet usage index with an average 10 hours a day
#54This is mostly Facebook since it's zero-rated where most Filipino mobile users are prepaid. Young and old, rich and poor Filipinos are glued to their phones like zombies all day browsing Facebook.
That's very condescending towards Filipinos.
Clearly you haven't been here and seen it in action. Groups sitting around the dinner table, or drinking, never interacting with one another or looking up from their phones. There is no cultural stigma to sitting on your phone and ignoring your friends like there is in other countries and it's rather terrifying to see it in action.
Re: Philippines tops world internet usage index with an average 10 hours a day
#55This is mostly Facebook since it's zero-rated where most Filipino mobile users are prepaid. Young and old, rich and poor Filipinos are glued to their phones like zombies all day browsing Facebook.
Filipino here. I blame carriers here for making Facebook free-of-charge. Yes, good thing that Messenger let's us send messages for free. But the thing is, we can't see images nor visit links unless you get a data pack/promo or connect to a Wi-Fi. Especially news, people can't see thumbnails or click links so they directly jump to wrong assumptions based on what they see and hear from the comments. Some people just lo…
I wonder if people adapt by copying articles instead of linking?
Re: Philippines tops world internet usage index with an average 10 hours a day
#56A prime feature of the developing world is how full of bs a regular day is and how much time one has to waste just doing regular stuff. Browsing FB would be a godsend.
What do you mean by 'world full of BS'? Is it like, people trapped waiting in line for government services? Or something else?
Paying bribes, sitting in traffic, waiting for people who never show up, having the people above you just start knocking out walls or something, being swindled out of wages...
Re: Philippines tops world internet usage index with an average 10 hours a day
#57This is mostly Facebook since it's zero-rated where most Filipino mobile users are prepaid. Young and old, rich and poor Filipinos are glued to their phones like zombies all day browsing Facebook.
Filipino here. I blame carriers here for making Facebook free-of-charge. Yes, good thing that Messenger let's us send messages for free. But the thing is, we can't see images nor visit links unless you get a data pack/promo or connect to a Wi-Fi. Especially news, people can't see thumbnails or click links so they directly jump to wrong assumptions based on what they see and hear from the comments. Some people just lo…
Ouch. Now combine inabilitity to read entire articles with the way clickbait works in the real world, where title+perex often times say wildly inaccurate thing to attract you to the actual article, at which point you realize it was basically a lie.
One recent example is where most news sources had a title that some [probably famous] man assualted a woman, yet the only local source had a title where it was clear that both man and the woman were arrested and charged. Google news actually makes this easier to see, because it groups titles from multiple sources into one "story" box.
Re: Philippines tops world internet usage index with an average 10 hours a day
#58A prime feature of the developing world is how full of bs a regular day is and how much time one has to waste just doing regular stuff. Browsing FB would be a godsend.
Because most first-world ubermensch spend filling and productive days doing menial tasks for a living wage. I'm surprised how prejudicial and borderline racist comments like this are upvoted here.
Re: Philippines tops world internet usage index with an average 10 hours a day
#59A prime feature of the developing world is how full of bs a regular day is and how much time one has to waste just doing regular stuff. Browsing FB would be a godsend.
Because most first-world ubermensch spend filling and productive days doing menial tasks for a living wage. I'm surprised how prejudicial and borderline racist comments like this are upvoted here.
I'm from a developing country with strong family ties to my country of origin (I am not white).
Systemic efficiency is really high in the west. Almost top quality in successful countries like Singapore.
A trip to some of the not so successful countries in Asia and Africa and it is an eye-opener how much is taken for granted in a rich society.
Re: Philippines tops world internet usage index with an average 10 hours a day
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Filipino here. I blame carriers here for making Facebook free-of-charge. Yes, good thing that Messenger let's us send messages for free. But the thing is, we can't see images nor visit links unless you get a data pack/promo or connect to a Wi-Fi. Especially news, people can't see thumbnails or click links so they directly jump to wrong assumptions based on what they see and hear from the comments. Some people just lo…
Can you really blame the carriers, at what point does personal responsibility take over?
> at what point does personal responsibility take over?
Maybe a good approach can be:
- When there are millions of people with otherwise functional lives falling for unhealthy behaviour then you blame the carriers.
- When there is a very small percentage of the population engaging in that behaviour, then is personal responsibility.
For example, personal responsibility cannot be asked for when people lack education.