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Facebook comes before tap water in India Empty Facebook comes before tap water in India

Post by charvaka Fri Aug 05, 2011 2:10 am

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-03/indians-add-facebook-before-tap-water-as-smartphones-reach-poor.html

In a two-room shanty with no running
water in northern Mumbai, Darshana Verma makes tea on a small
stove. On a bench nearby, her 18-year-old son, Vishal, messages
Facebook friends on the keypad of his Nokia smartphone.

“This is the Internet age,” said the 36-year-old domestic
helper, who spent more than half her $300 monthly income on
Samsung Electronics Co. and Nokia Oyj (NOK1V) mobile phones for her
children. “Facebook is there, all these things happen there now
-- they make friends, maybe they can even find jobs there.”

Cheaper Internet-ready phones may make India Facebook
Inc.’s biggest market after the U.S. next year with more than 50
million users, according to Nielsen Co. As Google Inc.’s rival
social network also gains in popularity, companies including
Pepsi Co. are boosting Internet advertising to reach the 352
million children under age 15 who are coming online.
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