Why is Facebook popular in the Philippines?

Facebook is the biggest social media site around, with more than two billion people using it every month. That's almost a third of the world's population!

If you find Filipinos always smiling, that doesn't mean they're mocking you or making fun of you. They smile when they're happy, they smile when they're sad, they smile when they're angry and well, they just smile by default. Filipinos are typically sanguine by temperament and sunny in disposition.

That's a slight increase from 2.32 billion in 2018. On a daily basis, there are more than 1.62 million people active on Facebook. That figure is also up from 2018, marking a 9% year-over-year increase.

This just goes to show that, for Filipinos, Facebook is synonymous with the internet. Instagram revels in a 10 percent quarterly growth, bringing it up to 11 million monthly active users, overtaking Twitter, which has 5.8 million monthly active users.

Do you spend several hours per day browsing through social media? Spending too long on social networking sites could be adversely affecting your mood. In fact, chronic users are more likely to report poor mental health, including symptoms of anxiety and depression.