Study shows that social networks are with ground in Latin America

(press release distribution) People come and spend hours in social networks than other activities online in Latin America.?Time spent in social networks than any other activity online, at least in Latin America, the "Digital Life" society British TNS study. Thus, in the region are consumed on average 5.2 hours on sites such as Facebook and 4.2 hours only respond and writing emails. This is one of the main features of Latin America, as in the development of markets; email is more popular than social networks, except for cell phones.

The research carried out by means of interviews nearly 50,000 in 46 countries worldwide found that "" rapidly developing online consumer markets exceed those of mature markets in terms of their level of involvement with digital activities. ""

According to the study, Latin American Internet users and other developing countries participate more actively in world numérique.Par example to Mexico, 40 per cent of respondents engage in digital activities against 20% in the Japan 26% to Denmark, 26% of the Finland. 63 percent of Mexicans to write your own blog or participate in forums of discussion, against 32% of Americans.

"The Internet is a very important part of the digital life in the 21st century, but how it affects our everyday life varies depending on where in the world where we live, said Matthew Froggatt, head of the division of the development of TNS." In know rapidly developing markets in which investment in infrastructure is recent and supported users adopt this much more active channel, "he said." According to the study, the exponential growth of social networks was pushed by changing the desktop connection to mobile phones.

Mobile users spend more 3 hours per week on these sites, compared with 2.2 hours spent on social networks in your computer.Manuel Castells, Professor at the University of California, said in London that 2014 Internet via cellular connections will surpass traditional computers.In Latin America, TNS research was conducted at the Mexico Argentina and the Brazil.

Source: BBC World

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