Mapping Indonesia’s Position in Social Networks
April 29th, 2009 | Posted in: Indonesian, Today, Web 2.0, ideas | Created by: fajar-jasminJust several days ago, I wrote a post in my other blog about China’s decision to block Plurk. In it, I linked to a result from Google Website Trend analysis showing that Indonesia brings the most traffic to the Plurk’s website.
Needless to say, it got me really intrigued. I then play around with it, using Twitter and Facebook as a variable to analyze. And these graphs are the results :
As you can see, Indonesia ranks as the 4th country who brings the most traffic in Facebook, while in Twitter it is listed as the 8th. Combine it with the fact that it’s the biggest traffic contributor for Plurk, and you get the idea that Indonesia is in fact a very prominent country in the global mapping of social networks.
One will then begin to naturally wonder the implication of this fact. For instance, what does it mean for Indonesia ? How can we capitalize on this seemingly-crucial fact that we are renowned users of social networking sites ?
It seems to me that there are two approaches to think about this issue, – classified according to the direction the effects that will inevitably happen to us. First, there is an inward implication, – although not specifically stated -, that people around the world have recognized the fact that us Indonesians are here to stay. It clearly shows that Indonesians are not just some sporadic users of social network. Instead, we are a large group of devoted people who regularly engage in connecting and networking via the Internet. This can only translate as a good thing because bit by bit, Indonesians will then gain stronger voice in this world. On the individual level, people from Indonesia will also get more opportunity to do some serious networking without being associated with any unnecessary facets of the image of a third-world country.
Secondly, and this is the harder part, is the outward responsibility we have with the fact. Now that we are being recognized as prominent entities in Social Networking world, what are we going to do with it ? Remember Peter Parker’s words when he said, “With great power comes great responsibility” ? Of course, it can be argued that we can then make contributions by building our own social networking sites. And we did that successfully, at least to an extent. But for me, it looks like we could go further than that. Why haven’t we incubate some ideas, – and then execute it, which will be useful for the whole world in a global level? You know, products as revolutionary as Blogspot, WordPress and Twitter.
This is what I offer for you to ponder as I close this fact. I am suggesting that this is the focus that we should develop. Indonesia are so full of talented developers and workers, but few who have the required ability to perform as a brilliant thinker in a conceptual level. And we all know that ideas are where all the great things in life come from.
14 Responses to “Mapping Indonesia’s Position in Social Networks”
April 29th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
but this is the worst..
http://pendek.in/006g9
even it’s getting less and less..
April 29th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Great Post!
Speaking about Plurk, according to my calculation at http://plurkerati.com/stats, Indonesia had been the third on the list of largest amount of users, and this was very generous calculation as I haven’t run the calculation for months now.
Let’s just say that if suddenly all Indonesians decide to leave Plurk, Plurk will loose a lot of traffics
And speaking about Twitter, Indonesians are starting to join in, in drove. I think it will be soon surpass traffics from other countries.
It would be interesting to monitor this week in week out
April 29th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Talk about putting my thoughts in to words! Nicely done.
Though I probably would have gone on and on and split into tangents
April 29th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
How about mash up the findings with this from earlier this month:
http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/04/07/the-mobile-web-pulsates-and-grows-daily/
Indonesia is on top of the mobile advertising industry. 4.4 billion paid banners, a 23% growth over last quarter of 2008.
A nation burgeoning with social media enthusiasts coupled with 51% of the world’s mobile advertising. What can you do with that?
April 30th, 2009 at 2:25 am
I guess this is relevant..
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/technology/start-ups/27global.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
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May 19th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
You made some good points there. I did a search on the topic and found most people will agree with your blog.
May 19th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
Super-Duper site! I am loving it!! Will come back again – taking you feeds also, Thanks.
May 20th, 2009 at 2:54 am
A SUPPORTED BY THE DEVELOPER TOOLS? It was interesting. You seem very knowledgeable in ypour field.
May 28th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
You are a very smart person!
May 28th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Wow! Thank you! I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog?
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December 2nd, 2009 at 11:04 pm
This has been an interesting article, thanks for taking the time to cover it, it’s really helped me!
April 9th, 2010 at 1:45 pm
Great post… retain it coming! I only wish there were much more websites like this.
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