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jvalmer
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| Globutron wrote: |
| We talked for about 40 minutes before my plane arrived and I was shocked to find she'd never heard of YouTube. She was genuinely puzzled about it. I told her how many users use it daily and she was in shock. |
You shouldn't be shocked, things like google and youtube are mostly popular in the Americas and Europe, but in Asia many have their own local versions. I think youtube entered the China market with a Chinese version in 2008, but hasn't been that successful. |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Location: England/Anyang
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| Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 9:39 am Post subject: |
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Youtube is pretty huge in Japan, Korea (at least for light watching from my experience of korean friends) and Hong Kong, it seems odd that the most populated country in the world has barely anything to do with it.
It's the 2nd or 3rd visited website in the whole of the internet, 14 billion views in a month... 3/4 of all uploads outside of America...
Odd, and surprising, but expected at the same time. |
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shinramyun
Joined: 31 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Mobile execution vans and their accompanying public shows, for one |
LOL, good one.
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Globutron wrote: |
Youtube is pretty huge in Japan, Korea (at least for light watching from my experience of korean friends) and Hong Kong, it seems odd that the most populated country in the world has barely anything to do with it.
It's the 2nd or 3rd visited website in the whole of the internet, 14 billion views in a month... 3/4 of all uploads outside of America...
Odd, and surprising, but expected at the same time. |
Based on my experience with students, most don't know about youtube, facebook or google. Some heard of them, even less actually use it. For Korean youth it's mostly naver, daum, cyworld or pandoratv. |
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pugwall
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| Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 7:06 am Post subject: |
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| Youtube, Twitter and Facebook are all banned in China so no wonder. China is big enough to have their own specific sites. They use Xiao Nei instead of Facebook and Tudou/youkou instead of youtube. So like that |
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