Kate’s Corner

Australian’s Blog less than other nations

Posted on July 23rd, 2007 by kmburb.
Categories: Uncategorized.

After reading the attached article, I thought about why Australian’s blog less than other nations.

I think that it’s mainly because of our culture. Mr Dawson touched on this saying: “Australians are reluctant to shout out. They don’t want to share their views as much as people in other countries.”

You only have to look at the lack of TV talk shows that we have here compared to the US to see that.

Another excerpt from the article reads:“They constantly talked about Australia being ‘behind’ the rest of the world. Mr Eckford had some interesting data about usage patterns of social networking sites such as MySpace, and said that the growth rates in Australia were ‘lagging’.”

We may have been slower to adopt Myspace, but Myspace’s big competitor, Facebook, has had an astronomical level of uptake here.

I built a Facebook profile then forgot about it for a while. Suddenly I received A LOT of emails from friends asking me to add them as my friend. Within two weeks my friends who had profiles had gone from 3 to 43. One friend I spoke to on a Tuesday didn’t have one, but by Thursday she did and soon had 70+ friends with profiles too.

It’s my (and my housemates’) latest addiction. We nerdily sit around our living room with our laptops out, uploading photos onto our profiles, sending friends virtual drinks, searching for more acquaintances with profiles to add to our friends list, writing on friend’s walls and inviting non-Facebook users to join. Forget about watching Desperate Housewives, we’re watching Facebook.

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