January 22, 2012 by Everest Amaefule Leave a Comment

The population of Nigerians on the social network, Facebook, grew by more than 100 per cent as it rose from 2,180,900 on December 31, 2010 to 4.369, 740 as at December 31, 2011.

This shows that a total of 2,188,840 Nigerians logged to the social network within a period of one year. Precisely, Nigerians within the Facebook loop grew by 100.36 per cent between 2010 and 2011.

On a population estimate of 156,062,142, the Facebook penetration rate is put at 2.8 per cent. This means that for every 100 Nigerians, 2.8 persons are within the Facebook network.

Although the population of Nigerians on other social networks such as tweeter and linkedin has been growing, Facebook remains the largest virtual community that Nigerians are hooked to.

The growth of Nigerians on the Facebook might not be unconnected with the increasing penetration of mobile communications networks as well as that of Third Generation platforms and devices.

Globally, Facebook and other social networks have been recording phenomenal increase in subscription. As at December 31, 2010, a total of 799.09 million had signed on to the Facebook network.

With the world population put at 6,930,055,154, Facebook has achieved a penetration rate of 11.5 per cent. This means that out of every 100 persons in the world, 11.5 of them have Facebook account.

With 233 million subscribers, Europe has the largest number of Facebook users in the world. The region has a penetration rate of 27.4 per cent.

Northern America has the largest Facebook penetration rate, 50.3 per cent, indicating that one out of every two persons in America has a Facebook account.

Africa with 37,376,640 Facebook subscribers and a population estimate of 1,037,740,877, the continent has the least penetration rate of 3.6 per cent.

Nigeria penetration rate of 2.8 per cent is less than Africa’s penetration rate even though its Facebook population is among the largest in the continent.

The rise in the importance of Facebook to Nigerians could be seen in the last protests against fuel subsidy removal as they resorted to the social network to vent their anger and mobilise participants.

The network has also become important to Nigerian politics. President Goodluck had first officially announced his ambition to contest the presidential election on the Facebook network.

http://www.punchng.com/business/close-up-on-ict/nigerian-population-on-facebook-grows-by-100-report/

Good job GEJ.

One of the dividends of democracy.

What does this have to do with dividend of democracy?

In any case, the internet age is a double-edge sword as GEJ has recently found out.

BlackPikiN:

Good job GEJ.

One of the dividends of democracy. :

^^^Believe all you want.
Wetin concern me?

Thank you for posting the report.

The shame is on Nigerian Sites like Nairaland etc

They ought to be first partakers of Nigirian patronism

but due to poor Site value other foreign websites ar prefered

this can serve as a wake up call!

Every body is clinging to the world being a global village

The shame is on Nigerian Sites like Nairaland etc

They ought to be first partakers of Nigirian patronism

but due to poor Site value other foreign websites ar prefered

this can serve as a wake up call!

Upon all d decoy accounts dat nigerians have,
And d number of people dat have toopen new accounts due to password problems,
And d spam accounts,
Well, Dem dey try sha,


Besides, Before GEJ, Facebook was!

it shows how jobless we are in Nigeria

yap?Naija Rocks

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Eziokwu,

nisaac:

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Eziokwu,

Are you the one in this picture?

nisaac:

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Eziokwu,

funny pic!, now we naming our schs after a social network.

Naija! Consumer bar none.

What does an increase of 100% do for us? Oh yeah, I know - it adds more value to a company whose owner's race could care less about us. This in turn means more dollars to facebook, at our expense.

Where are the Nigerian (original) inventors? Where are the (original) entrepreneurs? Seriously, we need to get rid of our consumerist spirit