{"id":9366,"date":"2012-03-27T15:35:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T13:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/most-of-world-interconnected-through-email-social-media\/"},"modified":"2012-03-27T15:35:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T13:35:32","slug":"most-of-world-interconnected-through-email-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/most-of-world-interconnected-through-email-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Most of world interconnected through email, social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Hungary, at 94 percent, has highest email usage<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Indonesians top social networking visitors<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Voice over IP popular in Russia<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Patricia Reaney<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, March 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Most of the world is<br \/>\ninterconnected thanks to email and social networking sites such<br \/>\nas Facebook and Twitter, according to a new poll released on<br \/>\nTuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eighty five percent of people around the globe who are<br \/>\nconnected online send and receive emails and 62 percent<br \/>\ncommunicate through social networking sites, particularly in<br \/>\nIndonesia, Argentina and Russia, which have the highest<br \/>\npercentage of users.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More than eight in 10 Indonesians and about 75 percent of<br \/>\npeople in Argentina, Russia and South Africa visit social media<br \/>\nsites, the new Ipsos\/Reuters poll showed.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Although Facebook and other popular social networking sites,<br \/>\nblogs and forums, were founded in the United States the<br \/>\npercentage of users was lower at six in 10, and in Japan it fell<br \/>\nto 35 percent, the lowest of the 24 countries in the global<br \/>\nsurvey.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even though the number in the United States was 61 percent,<br \/>\nthe majority of Americans are using social media sites,&#8221; said<br \/>\nKeren Gottfried, research manager at Ipsos Global Public<br \/>\nAffairs.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* 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) &#8211; Most of the world is interconnected thanks to email and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, according to a new poll released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-9366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}