Philippines surpasses 18 million Facebook users

The Philippines' social media scene has just reached another milestone, by going up two notches in Facebook's global ranking with its over 18 million Facebook users to date. The development comes barely a week after social media analytics company Facebakers.com hiked up the country's ranking from eighth place to sixth on its list of countries with the largest numbers of Facebook users. Since then, this number has grown by 2.78 percent or over 500,000 new users in just a matter of days. As of Friday afternoon, the Philippines boasted of 18.12 million Facebook users, representing 61.02 percent of the country's online population and 18.14 percent of the total population. Also according to Facebakers research, most new Facebook users in the Philippines over the past three months are between the ages of 18 and 24. Currently, this demographic category accounts for the majority or 44 percent of all Filipino Facebook users. - JV, GMANews.TV