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Isn’t Facebook huge in some Asian countries? Supposedly 3.5 billion people use one or more of its services. WhatsApp, Instagram and Oculus certainly aren’t just

• josephg 5y ago
  Sounds plausible, but how does that change the ethical calculus of working there?
• numpad0 5y ago
  Depends on which specific country you mean by Asia, as nations are kind of culturally segregated by sea and by heritage in Asia - I mean, Instagram is but Facebook itself is smol in Japan[1] and Twitter is bigger unlike anywhere[2] (taken from page 110 and page 170 of "The Digital 2021 Global Overview Report" from we are social/Hootsuite[3]). 1: https://image.slidesharecdn.com/datareportal20210308gd001digital2021globaloverviewreportjanuary2021v03-210308032633/95/digital-2021-global-overview-report-january-2021-v03-110-1024.jpg https://image.slidesharecdn.com/datareportal20210308gd001dig... 2: https://image.slidesharecdn.com/datareportal20210308gd001digital2021globaloverviewreportjanuary2021v03-210308032633/95/digital-2021-global-overview-report-january-2021-v03-170-1024.jpg https://image.slidesharecdn.com/datareportal20210308gd001dig... 3: https://wearesocial.com/blog/2021/01/digital-2021-the-latest-insights-into-the-state-of-digital https://wearesocial.com/blog/2021/01/digital-2021-the-latest...
• thorin 5y ago
  Anecdotally around 90% of the people I know in the UK (40s age group ) have Facebook and use it for something (even if it's just for checking restaurants/gigs etc), almost everyone uses Messenger or Whatsapp. Also for those saying they use Facetime, stats suggest that half phones in the UK are Android. FB is relevant, even if you want to be, maybe in the same ways Windows/Microsoft is relevant for a whole load of people.