Number of Japanese Facebook users in a steep decline

Cereja technology on February 7th announced that the estimated number of Facebook users in Japan has dropped 3.29 million or 23.8 percent since the last research result it revealed on January 7th. Attrition rate was the highest in Japan among Asian nations. In whole Asia, the number of users has dropped 11.36 million.

Estimated number of Facebook users in Asian Countries

1: India - 62.69M
2: Indonesia - 47.16M
3: Philippines - 30.12M
4: Thailand - 18.20M
5: Japan - 13.82M


Ｆａｃｅｂｏｏｋ国内推定利用者が329万人減、セレージャ調べ　―日本経済新聞
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNASFK0803S_Y3A200C1000000/


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Google on its Japanese website revealed "Google Yearly Search Word Ranking 2012".

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Yahoo! Japan on November 26th announced "2012 Search Word Ranking" listing the most searched words in this year between January 1st and October 31st.

Japanese college students: Social media they use

Twitter

Gaba, English school conducted internet research on 1,000 Japanese under graduate and graduate college students, 500 who have experienced job hunting and the rest never about their SNS use.


SNS currently using

Twitter - 58.7%
mixi - 56.5%
LINE - 43.9%
Facebook - 42.5%
Mobage - 40.6%
GREE - 37.1%
Google+ - 11.4%
Instagram - 3.1%
LinkedIn - 0.85
Flickr - 0.5%


SNS becoming popular now

Facebook - 49.4%
LINE - 44.7%
Twitter - 38.2%
Google+ - 12.5%
mixi - 8.3%
GREE - 5.5%
Mobage - 5.3%
Instagram - 4.4%
Flickr - 3.0%
Pinterest - 1.9%


SNS used for job hunting

Facebook - 25.4%
Twitter - 21.6%
mixi - 8.6%
Google+ - 4.2%
LINE - 4.6%
GREE - 1.6%
Mobage - 1.2%
Instagram - 0.4%
Flickr - 0.4%
Pinterest - 0.2%


就職に役立つSNS、1位「Facebook」　―リセマム
http://resemom.jp/article/2012/10/02/10133.html