Facebook Indonesia

Facebook, formerly Thefacebook, is a free-access social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. The website’s name refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a campus community that some US colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus.
Compared to Friendster? Facebook is far more “adult”. Views FS is very fancy and very suitable for young people. FB is much more elegant because the view can not customize the indiscriminate, so very fitting for a serious adult. More the top person (adults) joined, such as Amien Rais, Andi Noya, Faisal Basri, etc. From politicians, artists, lecturers, scientists, etc. The more sharing thoughts directly from Facebook, very effective. Compared to FS, FB is still far in Indonesia, even though globally the largest is MySpace then facebook. Both users have more than other competitors such as Friendster and Orkut (Google’s).
Below the number of users online social networking in Asian (in million / million users, 1 person can have more than 1 user).
Friendster (65 million users) Facebook (14 million) MySpace (15 million) CyWorld (Korea, 14 million) Hi5 (10 million) Orkut (10 million) Xiaonei (China, 5 million) 51.com (China, 5 million) Bebo (4 million). Source: Inside Facebook
Some other data of Facebook statistical : - More than 150 million users worldwide - Over half the users are outside the school / college - More than 700 million photo uploads per month - More than 4 million video uploads per month - 2.6 billion minutes spent on Facebook per day - Users age 25 years is the most rapid growth
Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook while he was a student at Harvard University. Website membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 175 million active users worldwide.
Facebook has met with some controversy over the past few years. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including Syria and Iran. It has also been banned at many places of work to discourage employees from wasting time using the service. Privacy has also been an issue, and it has been compromised several times. It is also facing several lawsuits from a number of Zuckerberg’s former classmates, who claim that Facebook had stolen their source code and other intellectual property.
2008 may be spelled Facebook is a year in Indonesia. Imagine, 2008 year ago the growth of Facebook reached 645% or more than 6-fold from the previous year. At this time there were 831 thousand Facebook users are from Brazil (0.4% of our population 237 million). One review said that the features of Facebook in Australia would trigger the growth of this high.
However, consider “culture” of Indonesia social networking which is very high on the Internet, with so Populer Friendster in Indonesia, then it is not strange that this service can be very popular in Indonesia.
Below Facebook Demographic Statistics for Indonesia
Source 2009 : http://allfacebook.com/facebook-demographic-statistics/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook http://teknohikmah.blogspot.com/2009/01/facebook-terobos-dunia-internet.html