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Two-thirds of users in Indonesia and Nigeria think FB is the Internet (2015)
- o0-0o 8y agoThis is sad. If any money from FB has been spent correcting this misperception it would be nice to know.
- barbarr 8y agoI'm pretty sure this is their business model rather than an unwanted misconception. FB's growth in the US is slowing so it's to their advantage to monopolize traffic in developing countries.
- Hasknewbie 8y agoIn fact, considering FB's past attempt in India to offer something leaning heavily toward "Facebook-only Internet"[0], it's more likely a misconception they want to reinforce, not correct. [0] No source because I'm on my phone and fuck all those AMP links returned by Google. Just look up 'facebook internet.org fiasco'.
- simonblack 8y agoI remember a time when roughly 90% of internet users thought the World Wide Web was the Internet.
- kazinator 8y agoIs it a word semantic stretch to say that Facebook has perpetrated a Nigerian scam?
- torstenvl 8y agoI don't think there's much of a conclusion you can draw from the study. The survey asks: - Have you used the Internet in the past month? - Have you used Facebook in the past month? - Do you agree that Facebook is the Internet? In context, answering affirmatively to the last question seems rather like agreeing that watching CNN constitutes watching television.
- aaron695 8y agoThe title contradicts the story?! But Facebook being/not being Internet can be true. Did a similar survey and afterwords realised they did have access to internet.org, free Facebook basically. (also free wikipedia and other things but.. no evidence they where used) In practice users with no data on their phones could access Facebook. So to a user it's totally different things I suspect the premise is true (confusion), the numbers seemed to me to be to high for it just to be internet.org but never found out for sure.