It wasn’t long when Indonesia surpassed the UK to become the country with the second largest number of Facebook users.
Indonesia achieved the feat in November 2010. As of February 1, 2012, India has dethroned Indonesia for the spot with a total of 43,497,980 Facebook users, and Indonesia with 43,060,360 Facebook users slipped to number three.
Facebook users growth in India
The U.S. with 155,701,780 Facebook users continues to be the largest Facebook Nation accounting for roughly 19% of the total Facebook users worldwide.
During the past 12 months or so, India recorded an impressive growth of 144%. On January 2011, India had only 16,915,900 Facebook users and was placed sixth.
Another country that showed a more impressive growth rate is none other than the largest South American country – Brazil. Brazil with 37,907,400 Facebook users is now the fourth largest Facebook Nation, with an impressive growth rate of 183% over the past year.
How long do you think India will take to become the largest Facebook Nation?
Facebook Messenger app is now available in the UK and Ireland for Android and IOS devices. However, it appears that the app is not yet available to countries on mainland Europe like France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.
Facebook Messenger is available for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, as well as Android version 2.2 and above.
This standalone messaging app allows users to chat with Facebook friends in an instant messaging style chat. Users can chat with friends individually or in group, attach photos and share location information.
Users receive notifications whenever a new message is available to read, with options to turn alerts off for an hour or overnight.
Users can also leave messages to their offline contacts, which will be delivered via Facebook Messages or SMS.
The app also syncs with Facebook contact lists and adds names automatically, rather than the user having to add them individually.
Facebook Messenger works across various mobiles devices such as laptops, tablets and smartphones. You can download the app from Apple’s App Store or Google’s Android Market for free.
The INQ Cloud Touch Facebook Smartphone, announced in February, has debuted in the UK.
INQ Cloud Touch is available for £299.95 without a contract or free with an £18 per month tariff at the Carphone Warehouse & Best Buy.
The phone is not an official Facebook phone, but one look at the phone and you will see how heavily it is integrated with Facebook. Powered by Android 2.2, the phone comes with a live Facebook homescreen.
Though the phone seems a little pricey, this full-fledged Facebook phone is certainly worth giving a look. Visit inqmobile.com or carphonewarehouse.com for more information.
Facebook emerged as the most sought after brand in the UK, beating YouTube to take the top spot.
A report from web analytics firm Experian Hitwise revealed that social media platforms were the most popular websites amongst Britons in 2010.
Facebook accounted for 3.5 percent of all searches made by Britons on Google, Yahoo and Bing in 2010. Taking into account the misspellings and abbreviations, Facebook accounts for approximately 6% of all search engine queries.
YouTube, whose searches accounts for 1% of all internet queries took the second place.
Online auction site eBay, and online retailers Amazon and Argos followed to form the list of top five most searched brand in UK in 2010.
Facebook has been blamed for the breakdown of thousands of marriages.
The site was named in at least 20% of divorce petitions in America this year, according to research, and the most common reason is spouses engaging in saucy sex chat with their online friends.
Flirty emails and messages found on Facebook pages are increasingly being cited as evidence of unreasonable behavior.
Other social networking sites, including MySpace, Bebo and Twitter, also featured heavily int he sample of 5,000 divorce papers studied.
Around 14 million Britons are believed to regularly use social networking sites to communicate with old friends or make new ones.
In the US, divorce lawyers openly admit to searching social networking sites for evidence of infidelity or wrong-doing in a bid to strengthen their case against an errant spouse.
Connecting with old friends and making new ones doesn’t seem to be handled very well in regard to this news. What do you say??
[Source: Telegraph, The Sun]
