{"id":11672,"date":"2010-12-17T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=11672"},"modified":"2010-12-17T00:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T15:08:00","slug":"51-of-japanese-have-no-close-friend-on-their-social-network-friends-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/51-of-japanese-have-no-close-friend-on-their-social-network-friends-list\/","title":{"rendered":"51% Of Japanese Have No &#8220;Close Friend&#8221; On Their Social Network Friends List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/alone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/alone.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"alone\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11673\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMicrosoft Advertising <a href=\"http:\/\/advertising.microsoft.com\/japan\/SupportCenter\/ResearchLibrary.aspx?pageid=2588&#038;Adv_ResearchReportID=1553\">reported<\/a> that a social media usage research conducted by Microsoft in Asia-Pacific(APAC) 11 countries and regions.<br \/>\nAccording to about 3,000 answering online to the questions (375 of them are Japanese), average APAC users are using 3 social networking services. They think only one-forth of their friends list are their close friends. 51% of Japanese answered none of their social network friends were their close friends.<br \/>\nAnother interesting difference between Japanese users and other APAC countries is that the primary purpose of personal e-mail account is to contact with family and friends in most countries, whilst for Japanese it is primarily for receiving news alerts.<br \/>\nThe Japanese report tells that the more detail is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savesocialenergy.com\/Default.aspx\">in English site SaveSocialEnergy.com<\/a>, but I could not find it on there.<\/p>\n<h3>See Also:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/11\/9-out-of-10-japanese-mobile-users-disinclined-for-using-real-name\/\">9 Out Of 10 Japanese Mobile Users Disinclined For Using Real Name<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/25\/30-japanese-sends-e-mail-first-to-ask-if-they-can-make-phone-call\/\">30% Japanese Sends E-Mail First To Ask If They Can Make Phone Call<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Advertising reported that a social media usage research conducted by Microsoft in Asia-Pacific(APAC) 11 countries and regions. According to about 3,000 answering online to the questions (375 of them are Japanese), average APAC users are using 3 social networking services. They think only one-forth of their friends list are their close friends. 51% of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/51-of-japanese-have-no-close-friend-on-their-social-network-friends-list\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">51% Of Japanese Have No &#8220;Close Friend&#8221; On Their Social Network Friends List<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,36],"tags":[1815,2298,3108,3409,3423],"class_list":["post-11672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-trend","tag-japanese-culture","tag-microsoft","tag-research","tag-social-friend","tag-social-network","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}