The Most Popular Facebook City? Jakarta.
Forget Los Angeles or New York City. Jakarta has more people on Facebook than LA and New York City in their city limits in real life. Facebook’s total population has climbed to 642 million people, a market research firm says.
According to the ranking published by Socialbakers, more than 80% of Jakarta’s population is on Facebook – or 17.4 million people. In comparison, the U.S. census Bureau currently estimates Ney York City’s population at 8.3 million people (2009 data) and Los Angeles at 9.8 million.
Istanbul follows Jakarta with 9.6 million people on Facebook 9and a 86% penetration). Mexico City sits in the third spot with 9.3 million and 51%. The largest Facebook cities in the U.S. is New York City with 4.3 million people, Los Angeles (4.0 million) and Chicago (3.1 million).
We are taking the entire chart with a grain of salt, as Socialbakers lists some cities with a penetration of well above 100% – Caracas is topping the list with 201% penetration and 5.3 million people.
There is plenty of Facebook data out there every day – data that is about as overwhelming as the status messages of your friends. We ignore most of it, but this is an interesting one: A recent survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, which includes about 1600 U.S. lawyers, said that Facebook is now playing a key role in divorces.
About 20% of divorces now quote Facebook in their cases – most of which claim that Facebook is used to create and maintain extramarital relationships.
“We’re coming across it more and more,” said licensed clinical psychologist Steven Kimmons, Ph.D., of Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois. “One spouse connects online with someone they knew from high school. The person is emotionally available and they start communicating through Facebook. Within a short amount of time, the sharing of personal stories can lead to a deepened sense of intimacy, which in turn can point the couple in the direction of physical contact.”
I can easily understand that you could complain about lacking Facebook privacy in such cases, at least if you are naïve enough to think that your spouse would not find those Facebook records or seek access to those documents through a court order. However, it seems that our hunger for social popularity occasionally knocks out our comprehension of common sense in real life.
Source: ConceivablyTech
