{"id":5669,"date":"2016-01-25T13:53:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T13:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/in-armenia-internet-resembles-television-2-0\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T13:53:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T13:53:12","slug":"in-armenia-internet-resembles-television-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/critique\/2016\/01\/25\/5669\/","title":{"rendered":"In Armenia, Internet Resembles Television 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Continually spending time on social networking sites and reading the news is not only dangerous for your health, mood, and marriage. Many good Armenian programs are born and die online solely for the reason that they remain overlooked<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The internet is growing in Armenia. The number of internet users is increasing, reaching nearly two-thirds of the population.<\/p>\n

Presence on social networking sites is also increasing: from Armenia, more than a million people access Odnoklassniki daily; Facebook’s daily audience is about 560,000 users; and Instagram’s, about 60,000.<\/p>\n

Armenia’s national .am domain is the third fastest growing European domain<\/a> \u2014 it has already reached 30,000.<\/p>\n

But one gets the impression that the internet in Armenia is more so Television 2.0, where people are mainly passive consumers of rapidly changing news. <\/p>\n

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What do Armenians mainly do online? If we look at the 50 most visited sites from Armenia<\/a>, we’ll notice a few things:<\/p>\n