Philippines – the social networking capital of the world

Facebook logo, Twitter and RSS posted on the windows of Kitch Cafe in Makati City.

This is the new nickname that our country just received after a report came in online and our country got the number 1 spot as the most heavy user of Facebook in the world, there are other countries that are actively using Facebook, but this time the stats and numbers give the story and I know that the local mainstream media is a big influence on this number and give a big push to all of us here to use Facebook. Watch TV,check out the news, or see advertisement, all of them bear the Facebook logo. (More story below)

I first read the news here at Carlo’s blog http://www.newmedia.com.ph/philippines-is-the-social-networking-capital-of-the-world/ and he explained that “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.”

The main source of the news came here at http://247wallst.com/2011/05/09/the-ten-nations-where-facebook-rules-the-internet/ and they showed here the Top 10 nations where Facebook rules the net, and they gave a nice stats based on data provided by comScore, Inside Facebook, New Media Trend Watch, and ZDNet and announced that the Philippines is the number 1 users of Facebook.

here’s the stat

1. Philippines
> Facebook: 93.9%
> Twitter: 16.1%
> LinkedIn: 1.9%
> Internet Use: 29.7%

My prediction was right last year that Facebook will dominate our screens and now I’m a little bit scared that we are the heaviest users of Facebook and this will attract lots of Facebook activities in the coming months. I’m not really sure if networking and community building is still good in Facebook for your company or small communities, but I still suggest that we should start moving and not rely on Facebook forever, there might be a time that Facebook can be the next Friendster hahahah. But still, Facebook rocks and I’m still looking for other alternatives and how do I maintain my online community there.

Big Questions come into my mind like “what if Facebook is gone after we woke up in the morning?” . The question and answer is similar to.. When Plurk is down.we move back to Twitter..but that was the old story…everyone now sticks to Twitter…and if Twitter is down then everyone moves back to Facebook. Maybe my answer will be, “I’ll go back to Twitter and Multiply if ever Facebook crashes down”, a good example also is that…I heavily use Facebook and Twitter after Blogger.com is down.

Although that the news can also show that our internet service, connection and access are doing good, broadband or even mobile are now semi-perfectly working fine and then in the coming months if SMART’s LTE and Globe’s HSPA+ launches in every part of the city, the continued growth of Facebook users will be doubled, because the access to any internet connection will affect the stats again and also bring more users to social networking sites.

So what’s your take as our country, the Philippines, as the SOCIAL NETWORKING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD ?

Facebook redirects me to Google

I don’t know what’s happening… but I’m now researching on how to fix this issue
But when I use touch.facebook.com the link works perfectly fine

What’s wrong ? DNS? Wifi Router problems? or just my browser Firefox 4

Social media influencers are revealed!

OMG! Churp Churp Philippines finally revealed their social media influencers! ehhehe or shall I say the members of their growing community for Churp Churp Philippines, Its a great news that they have us on board and ohhh look at that! I saw my avatar there! Have you seen your Avatar?

I also read a news from their newsletter that they require members to have at least 25 friends or followers in any of their social networks. Hmmm tama yun! buti na lang at hindi 5,000 friends hehehe.

”Recently, it has! come to our attention that a substantial number of sign-ups for Churp Churp have been fraudulent. We understand the enthusiasm, but we are looking into building a community,         and not just a mere numbers game. As such, for our purposes, we can only accept as valid Churp Churp accounts with twenty-five (25) or more followers or friends. This will apply both for ChurpChurp's housekeeping purposes and for the rewards campaign we are currently running!” – Churp Churp Ph

If you want to learn more about Churp Churp just visit my blog post about it here at Earn money using Twitter and Facebook in the Philippines

image above is courtesy of Churp Churp Ph

Did you encounter this Facebook Auto Chat Virus ?

I use Facebook everyday and every hour,I spend my time reading all status updates and check for the latest trends happening online. I also encounter weird Facebook shotgun Likes invitations, weird photo tags and now the Facebook Auto Chat (virus).

you might encounter incoming chat from your friends and network and they post weird messages like

"lol, have you seen your picture? its so funny!"

"just give me a call when you read this"

Sometimes the Facebook incoming chats are funny, others are weird...and some have a lot of drama. I receive this chats last week and I think my Facebook chat is also infected, and to prevent the spread of the worm or virus, I manually disabled my Facebook chat for good, so that I won't receive any of those weird messages and also to prevent the spread the worm, if ever I am infected, because I can't really tell.

Here's a funny incident that happened today, I was on a meeting with my colleagues, then my phone rang and a Facebook friend called me to check me if I am okay, and then I told him that I'm okay and what's up, we were suppose to meet last week and I canceled our meet up because I'm sick and I was wondering that my friend here might get another sched for us to meet.

Then he told me that he received a Facebook chat from me and it says that I should give him a call, and I am shocked after I heard that and told my friend that my Facebook chat is disabled and I'm not online. So that means the Facebook Auto Chat worm or virus can still use the chat engine of Facebook and still sends messages even that you are offline or disconnected from the internet. Wow!! how did they do that?

I started some research and saw that there's no news about this Facebook auto chat sessions from a virus, but I read that many forumers are offering anti virus removal for your computers, I' m very careful in downloading fix and tool kit, but I suggest to everyone that you should be very careful in downloading these tool kit, because we can't guarantee if that will work.

I know people at Facebook are working on their shell to solve this issues, and I do hope that they can inform us if it is complete solved or not..

So be very careful!

Just remember..

1. If someone posted a photo in your wall and contains a link like the "video of a kid committed suicide on camera" or "Miley Cyrus is a naughty girl and naked" . Just delete it and don't ever click on the link.

2. Same goes to Facebook app, there are apps that can redirect you to a website containing malicious sites that will auto download some harmful files in your computer,if someone invited you, just dont click it.

3. Never give any details about your personal profile in Facebook, if someone ask you in a chat or in a message.

4. Always check the url of your Facebook, or a link that was sent to you via email, sometimes a face Facebook notification arrives in your email inbox and say that you receive a tag from a friend and when you click on a link, it will direct you this fake Facebook site and it will steal your passwords and profile.

5. If you don't know what to do, just post a question in your wall and someone from your friends can help you what to do.

ok that's all folks!

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Ok after I wrote this post, I saw this news just now

ALERT: Facebook Chat Hijackings Continue To Spread

http://www.allfacebook.com/alert-facebook-chat-hijackings-continue-to-spread-2011-03

Facebook stats in Philippines from Yehey! infographics

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I received this infographics from the Yehey! team and the infographics contains some info about the stats of how many Facebook users in our country and also products who are at Facebook. The top and most "like" fanpages are also listed. I just don't know if the stats for male and female are for the Philippines only, there's much more users of female than male when it comes to Facebook.

And cool news is that Philippines is the 5th largest country on Facebook with 20,802,540 users as on January 2011 and it listed as the 4th growing Facebook countries in the world with 1.5 million new users on the start of 2011. Wow! where do these people came from ? Internet is going big again for 2011.

Here's a challenge for 2011. Beat Vince Ganda's 2,638,029 FB fans.

her facebook annulment

her


me

this is something serious.
oh shit!

i should be gone or die or commit suicide before the real thing comes.
goodbye for happy family.
i'll shut up for now.