Asia goes net junkie

Socialization, research, entertainment, news, and online banking are some of the services offered by the network of networks or what do we simply call as the “internet.” Also the corporate world uses it for business purposes by advertising their products with the use of their own websites by buying their own .com domains. The reasons stated above are some of the constituents that affect the progressive growth of the net junkies that we call nowadays. Net junkie was defined by the urbandictionary.com as the people who are addicted to the internet or spends a great deal of time surfing the web or ‘Diving’.

As of March 31, 2011, 35 countries have been surveyed regarding the subject “Internet Users and Population Statistic.” And based on the results, Asia has been declared by internetworldstats.com as the top user of the global system of internet. A breaking record of 44.0% or the equivalent of 922,329,554 users in Asia out of 2,095,006,005 users all over the world. While the remaining 56% or the equivalent of 1,172,676,451 of the population are the users in the rest part of the world. And according to the said website the population was based from the US Census Bureau.

“Asia makes a strong claim to be leading the world when it comes to the development of broadband internet”, a statement given by www.budde.com.au. China leads in Asia as the “net junkiest” among the rest of the other countries with the number of 477,000,000 internet users. Next to China are India, Japan, Indonesia, South Korea, Philippines, Vietnam, Pakistan, Thailand and Malaysia.

Philippines got the sixth place among 48 Asian countries. The top viewed website is the social networking Facebook, which is known to everyone. Internet users’ statistics growth is being driven by various factors. One is the ease of having access to the World Wide Web with the use of cellular phones. A number of 2.1 billion Asians are using mobile phone that has a capacity to get hold of the internet, that’s why with just one click away, boom! You already have entered a unique webpage. And if sometime in the next generation I won’t be surprised that it will not be only the young ones but also the young once will be all converging as well.