Mark Christian V.

Baril Purposive Communication

1BSA1- Non Abm

1. Compare and contrast the time spent on social media sites by Filipinos to
other race (i.e., Koreans, Japanese, Australians, Brazilians, Americans, Italians,
etc.)
For me, social media paved the way in making communication and getting
information easier, more convenient, and faster. Spending too much time on
different kind of media is being normalize at these generation especially in this
time of pandemic. I could say that Filipinos are very dependent when it comes on
the utilization of social media thus the Philippines is known as the social media
capital of the world. According to the gathered information, Filipinos spends 4
hours and 15 minutes every day on utilizing social media such as on Tiktok,
Instagram, Facebook and other affiliated apps or website on media. Compared to
other countries who’s spending less of their time on social media like the
Japanese who just spend 40 minutes of their time utilizing social media daily.
Americans spending an average of just 2 hours and 6 seconds daily. And lastly,
Argentinians who spend 3 hours and 32 minutes and Brazilians who spend 3 hours
43 minutes who followed closely enough to Argentina when it comes in spending
time on the utilization of social media.
So I could say, there has been a big difference when it comes to the time spent
on social media by the Filipinos to the other races. As I’ve said Filipinos is very
dependent when it comes on the utilization of social media because the media
didn’t just help the Filipinos to stay connected to each other but also Filipinos
used social media in different aspect like in promoting their businesses, be
updated on the happenings in the country, and the Filipino student used social
media most of the time because of the current situation that we have.
 2. Compare and contrast the internet speed in the Philippines with that in other
countries.
As for my own experience, first it’s ironic how Filipinos manage to spend a lot of
time on using social media when in fact the internet speed in the Philippines has
the slowest internet speed in the entire Southeast Asia which is ranked 158th out
of 190 countries worldwide with the 4.2 Mbps. The internet speed of the
Philippines, Brazil and Argentina is closely similar with the Mbps of 4.2, 5.5 and 5
Mbps. Compared to the other countries like South Korea who have the fastest
internet speed of 26.3 Mbps, Norway with the internet speed of 67.54 Mbps,
followed by Netherlands, Canada, and Qatar. These has been the main problem of
most of the Filipinos especially to the Filipino workers who works from home and
to the Filipino students who has been struggling and suffering because of the
internet speed in the Philippines.