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by chmod775 1875 days ago
Many countries have their own domestic social networks with varying popularity - some are way more active than FB, others are more or less dead. Russia is an example of the former.

Other countries don't use social media much, because they are culturally just not as interested in it.

There's a few countries where you can't really avoid being on any social network and that social network is not domestic, but those you can probably count on one hand. Off the top of my head I can just come up with Australia, India and Indonesia.
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absove 1875 days ago
Curious in which category you think the majority of European countries fall into? The domestic social network one, or the don't use social media one? Because as far as I can tell US social networks are the norm there and there very much is a social expectation that you are reachable on them, even if it's not government mandated.
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chmod775 1873 days ago
> there very much is a social expectation that you are reachable on them

I disagree. People will (somewhat) expect you to have a WhatsApp in many European countries, but hardly anyone will expect you to use Facebook.

At least in my circles Facebook is a wasteland. Many people haven't even posted anything in years, and if I was trying to reach anyone via Facebook I'd settle in for a long wait - until they check it in a month or two.

You won't notice it if you just open Facebook, because Facebook will fill your feeds with people who are active, but when I go through my list of contacts there it's obvious less than one in five are still actively using it.

I don't claim total knowledge of the situation everywhere, but I do keep in contact with people of a lot of different countries.

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MomoXenosaga 1875 days ago
Europe has been deeply colonised by US tech companies.

I do not agree with Chinese stance on democracy or human rights but I admire their willingness to play by their own rules. Not opening their markets and rolling out the red carpet for Silicon valley was wise.

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jrochkind1 1875 days ago
I wonder how many of those are in fact infiltrated by the NSA, the Chinese equivalent, or both though. :(
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