Philippines tops world internet usage index with an average 10 hours a day
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#2How did they measure this? What qualifies as “online”? Does leaving Skype on and open while I go about my day count me in the statistic?
Re: Philippines tops world internet usage index with an average 10 hours a day
#3How did they measure this? What qualifies as “online”? Does leaving Skype on and open while I go about my day count me in the statistic?
Probably, using the average of facebook users spent scrolling to their feeds..
Re: Philippines tops world internet usage index with an average 10 hours a day
#4I spend all day on the computer but mostly I am reading, writing, or scripting that I'm not actually surfing the web. Then again spotify uses the internet.. I wonder how much 'internet usage' is a direct replacement for something that is analog but has the same effect, like reading newspaper.
Re: Philippines tops world internet usage index with an average 10 hours a day
#5Unsurprising Philippines is at top of list. World leader in adoption of tech that enables social interaction.
From 2007:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-textmessages/...
Another. Undated. Avg sms per month per subscriber = 600. Or 20 a day. Which seems low, I'm sure I've seen figures alot higher than this.
https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-send-a-text-to-the...
Re: Philippines tops world internet usage index with an average 10 hours a day
#6>most time spent online is done via mobile devices, with the greatest portion of that time spent on social media
A lot of people in Phils seem to have a FB-connected mobile plan where they can chat on FB but not see the pictures on there, although you can send them pictures in the chat. And it only seems to connect them to FB, not the whole internet. Just a messenger app I guess. (Most of my close friends are in the Philippines, we chat on FB.)
Re: Philippines tops world internet usage index with an average 10 hours a day
#7>most time spent online is done via mobile devices, with the greatest portion of that time spent on social media A lot of people in Phils seem to have a FB-connected mobile plan where they can chat on FB but not see the pictures on there, although you can send them pictures in the chat. And it only seems to connect them to FB, not the whole internet. Just a messenger app I guess. (Most of my close friends are in the…
How would a mobile provider block pictures and other attachments inside a chat system? See a large transfer and kill the connection?
Also, in this scenario what would stop users from using domain fronting or encrypted SNI to access other Facebook services?
Re: Philippines tops world internet usage index with an average 10 hours a day
#8I remember reading a newspaper for hours after school. Now I barely read news for more than 30 mins a day. I am more connected but my satisfaction of the quality of news I am consuming has gone really down.
I wonder what similar changes Philippines is seeing. People are obviously replacing some offline activity with something similar they do online. For example spending time with friends our neighbors in real life has now been replaced with FB or Whatsapp. Probably because it is more convenient? Is it better though?
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#9>most time spent online is done via mobile devices, with the greatest portion of that time spent on social media A lot of people in Phils seem to have a FB-connected mobile plan where they can chat on FB but not see the pictures on there, although you can send them pictures in the chat. And it only seems to connect them to FB, not the whole internet. Just a messenger app I guess. (Most of my close friends are in the…
How would a mobile provider block pictures and other attachments inside a chat system? See a large transfer and kill the connection? Also, in this scenario what would stop users from using domain fronting or encrypted SNI to access other Facebook services?
Facebook itself subsidizes a specific 'facebook data plan' with mobile providers. It loads free.facebook.com which specifically does things to keep data down also.
Re: Philippines tops world internet usage index with an average 10 hours a day
#10Another impressive stat on Internet usage in PH is the sex ratio, Female Internet users are equal (or more) to the male users[1]. In India female users account for 30% overall & 64:36 (Male:Female) in rural India[2].
This is an important metric to note if one is running a non-geographically bound dating platform; the female users from PH grew exponentially when compared to other countries in our platform.
[1]:https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/12/04/18/41-percent-of-fil...
[2]:https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/...