{"id":3887,"date":"2013-10-11T12:56:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T12:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/in-armenia-odnoklassniki-users-drop-while-percentage-of-facebook-users-nearly-triples-in-two-years\/"},"modified":"2013-10-11T12:56:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T12:56:57","slug":"in-armenia-odnoklassniki-users-drop-while-percentage-of-facebook-users-nearly-triples-in-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/newsroom\/2013\/10\/11\/3887\/","title":{"rendered":"In Armenia, Odnoklassniki Users Drop While Percentage of Facebook Users Nearly Triples in Two Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

When asked what online activities they perform, 67% of internet users in Armenia named social networking (that is, social networking sites \u2014 SNS \u2014 such as Facebook, Twitter, Odnoklassniki, and so on).<\/p>\n

Among SNS users, the percentage of those in Armenia who use the Russian social networking site Odnoklassniki dropped: in 2011<\/a>, this figure was 81%; in 2013, it dropped to 65%, while the percentage of Facebook users nearly tripled: from 12% in 2011 to 33% in 2013.<\/p>\n

These are just some of the results from the latest Caucasus Research Resource Center \u2013 Armenia (CRRC Armenia) survey within the framework of the 2013 Alternative Resources in Media<\/a> program.<\/p>\n

According to the survey, 51% of the respondents used the internet once in the last 12 months. Regarding the activities performed in social networking sites, 90% of SNS users said they communicate with friends; 41% post photos, videos, music; 54% get information; and only 3% “satisfy freedom of expression and desire for information.”<\/p>\n

\"internet-arm-2013\"<\/p>\n

Of SNS users, 13% said they use social networking sites to share political or social views. In 2011, this figure was 7%.<\/p>\n

Of internet users, 59% watch videos online, while only 10% upload videos online. Of those who watch videos, 81% watch music videos; 63% fun videos; 51% films; 23% news programs; 14% watch sports; and 13% videos with political content.<\/p>\n

Asked if they have ever made a political or social comment and posted online, only 6% said yes. However, in 2011, this figure was 3%.<\/p>\n

\"political-comment-2013\"<\/p>\n

Among those who used the internet once in the last 12 months (considered “internet users” for the purposes of this study), 70% use Google Chrome as their main browser; 7% use Opera; 5% use Firefox; 3% use Internet Explorer; and15% apparently didn’t know what browser they use.<\/p>\n

Asked which operating system they use in general, a whopping 80% of internet users said they use Windows; 1% use Apple OS; and 0.1% use Linux, while 19% didn’t know what operating system they use. <\/p>\n

The raw data of this survey is available on the CRRC Armenia website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gegham Vardanyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When asked what online activities they perform, 67% of internet users in Armenia named social networking (that is, social networking sites \u2014 SNS \u2014 such as Facebook, Twitter, Odnoklassniki, and so on).<\/p>\n

Among SNS users, the percentage of those in Armenia who use the Russian social networking site Odnoklassniki dropped: in 2011<\/a>, this figure was 81%; in 2013, it dropped to 65%, while the percentage of Facebook users nearly tripled: from 12% in 2011 to 33% in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsroom","author_posts-gegham-vardanyan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}