More social networking site (SNS) users in Asia Pacific, including those in the Philippines, are logging in through their mobile phones according to International Data Corp.’s recent survey.
The survey interviewed 1,400 SNS users, aged between 15 to 35 years, from December 2008 to January 2009. It is part of a series of studies that evaluate the impact of Web 2.0 on Internet users in Australia, India, China, Korea, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
“The survey findings thus show that mobile phones and mobile Internet hold the promise of changing the SNS landscape in the Asia-Pacific region. Particularly in markets where PC penetration is relatively low, mobile phones have the potential to eventually overtake the PC as a preferred way of accessing SNSs,” said Debbie Swee, market analyst at IDC Asia-Pacific Emerging Technologies Research.
SNSs include sites such as Friendster, Facebook, Hi5 and MySpace. Non-SNS include sites such as YouTube, Amazon and Wikipedia. Read more
