* Hungary, at 94 percent, has highest email usage
* Indonesians top social networking visitors
* Voice over IP popular in Russia
By Patricia Reaney
NEW YORK, March 27 (Reuters) – Most of the world is
interconnected thanks to email and social networking sites such
as Facebook and Twitter, according to a new poll released on
Tuesday.
Eighty five percent of people around the globe who are
connected online send and receive emails and 62 percent
communicate through social networking sites, particularly in
Indonesia, Argentina and Russia, which have the highest
percentage of users.
More than eight in 10 Indonesians and about 75 percent of
people in Argentina, Russia and South Africa visit social media
sites, the new Ipsos/Reuters poll showed.
Although Facebook and other popular social networking sites,
blogs and forums, were founded in the United States the
percentage of users was lower at six in 10, and in Japan it fell
to 35 percent, the lowest of the 24 countries in the global
survey.
“Even though the number in the United States was 61 percent,
the majority of Americans are using social media sites,” said
Keren Gottfried, research manager at Ipsos Global Public
Affairs.
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