Philippines Ranks #1 in Facebook Penetration
Social network penetration is incredibly high in the Philippines, reaching 95%. Facebook is the country’s most popular website, more so than Google, and has a penetration rate of 93.9%. The Philippines is also the eighth most popular country for Twitter use on a global scale, with a penetration rate of 16.1%. The popularity of photo sharing has increased by 46% in the country in one year, largely due to Facebook. Social networking is so popular among Filipinos, the country has been nicknamed “The Social Networking Capital of the World.” {source}
Furthermore, Israel came in second with 91%, Turkey at 90.9% and Chile at 90.2%. The two other SEA country that made it to the top 10 is Indonesia at 87.5% and Malaysia at 88.4%. But, another data worth noting is that, in terms of absolute percentage of the population, Malaysia is higher than the Philippines — 57% of Malaysians are on Facebook while only 28% of Filipinos are on Facebook.
My comment, I wouldn’t be surprised if Facebook folds just like Friendster. As you can see Asian traffic killed Friendster, but this is just a wild forecast. With their more than 500M users… this social networking site is just so big to fail… but every business has it’s own cycle.. 
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Del, I was amazed by your fan page. I am not that familiar about making fan page, but one of my friend told me that you have the highest number of fan on facebook. Can you share it here on how to use that fan page to promote your earnings.. -thanks.
I would also believe Del, that facebook will also die the same with friendster, but I guess it will not be too soon… I saw googles demo+ which i think more likely to become the next social networking site soon..
just my two cents. -thanks.
don’t worry, i know you’re going there..
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