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Tuesday April 21

Belgium is doing great on Facebook

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According to a blogpost on O'reilly, Belgium is on place 5 in Europe, with around 2 200 000 (almost 20% of the Belgian population) active Facebook users. There are a few reasons why Belgium as a small country is ranking so high. I'm thinking of a few :

  • As Belgians we don't mind our site being in English. I know currently you can get FB in Dutch, but a lot of Belgians started using FB in English.
  • We, Belgians, are internationally focused.
  • We didn't really had a locally focused social network, which was targetted towards an elder crowd (18+). We do have Netlog, which still is (and will probably remain) really popular, but it is focused more towards a younger crowd. 
  • We have a relatively good penetration of broadband connections, which makes it easy to share and browse photos/movies/ ...
  • Facebook came to Belgium just when a lot of Belgian internet users were discovering that the internet was more than the basic usage like email, surfing, google, e-banking, ... 
  • Facebook became very popular as a social network for students and has grown exponentially from that audience.

Others reasons? (feel free to add some in the comments)

Comments

We are curious what other people are doing :)

Posted by Sibran 22 Apr 2009 13:14:22

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Posted by شات مصرى 11 Dec 2011 11:45:57

If you have a TypeKey or TypePad account

Posted by شات صوتي 12 Dec 2011 00:39:07

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