Hi, Balázs and James, orkut was the most popular social networking platform until a few years ago. I don't have scientific research to prove that now, but from my networking, which includes poor to high middle class people, most have migrated to facebook. orkut is seen as a site where low middle class and poor people access, which is true if youu visit a Lan House in a slum in São Paulo - last time I went I've seen people using both, orkut and facebook. All my friends from a slum I've worked in a educational project near University of São Paulo use facebook, for instance. James link also confirms that.
According to this Wall Street Journal news on social media in Brazil [1], "Facebook Inc. has some 65 million users in Brazil, which makes it the company's second largest market after the U.S. by number of users, according to social-analytics company Socialbakers." Also "People in Brazil are spending increasing amounts of time connected to social-media sites. Globally, the average time spent on Facebook dropped 2% to 361 average minutes per user per month by September 2012, compared with a year earlier, according to comScore research. But in Brazil, Facebook time grew 208% to 535 minutes over the same period." [...] Quite a lot to understand and this makes the data of this facebook page more striking. Tom [1] Brazil: The Social Media Capital of the Universe: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323301104578257950857891898.html -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
