The talk I gave at Sietar about Social media in Japan. Most of the material was already covered here http://asiajin.com/blog/2012/04/02/a-summary-of-the-latest-studies-about-japan-social-media/
2. 2011 Published the first academic study
about the Tohoku earthquake
2008 Published antecedents of social
networking behavior, cited more than
40 times
2006 Conducted one of the earliest
studies about facebook
5. Social Capital
We have a natural tendency to build functioning networks which usually
result in physical, informational, financial or other forms of gains.
6. Communication Imperative
We are born to communicate and we are driven to maximize
our communication satisfaction and interaction.
8. – RESEARCH
• Efficient and convenient communication
• Curiosity
• Desire for popularity
• Relationship building
• relationship maintenance. (Urista et al.
(2009)
• a) social network surfing
• b) social investigation
• c) social connection
• d) shared identities
• e) content and status updating. (Joinson, 2008)
• diversion (pass time, break, escapism),
• personal motives (self presentation,
impression management)
• informational motives (information seeking,
information sharing, surveillance, social
investigation, social sneaking). (Sejrup, 2009)
10. My Study
• Conducted in 2006, published in 2008
• The size of online social networks is larger
than real life social networks
• Females spend more time social networking
• People with high self esteem don’t add
strangers to their network and might even
have smaller circles.
12. History of Social
Networks in Japan
Facebook
2010
GOCO GREE & MYSPACE 2nd Life Twitter (Interface
2003 MIXI 2004 2006 2007 2008 change &
Tokyo
Office)
14. To kill time
To have fun
Get info about my interest area
Contact w. friends
Easily communicate w. friends
To find out about the news
To get relaxed
To tell others what I am up to
To check what my friends are up to
To relieve stress
21. Unique Japan #4
It’s RUDE if you
post a photo on
Facebook and then
do not respond
to every single
comment on that
photo
22. Unique Japan #5
People post
individual
messages more
than community
related messages
on Twitter
23. Unique Japan #6
Compared to the US
People post more
about TV and less
about
sports/news/polit
ics on Twitter
24. Unique Japan #7
Twitter core users
usually have lower
self esteem and don’t
easily trust others.
Similar to the
2channel crowd.
25. Unique Japan #8
Most brands
don’t allow
fans to post on
their brand pages on
Facebook.
26. Unique Japan #9
Traditionally the
highest
blogger per
capita in the world
and has the world
largest nickname based
Forum: 2channel.
27. Unique Japan #10
Location based services
(even though promoted by
Mixi, Facebook and of
course Foursquare) are not
likely to pick up because of
security concerns…
28. Last thing…
Japan is Hard to predict.
The power of social
conformity is higher
than perhaps any
other country in the
world.
30. Did you know?
Yesterday,
250 million photos were uploaded to Facebook, 864,000
hours of video were uploaded to YouTube,
and 294 billion emails were sent.
31. No one saw it was coming, including…
• Facebook wanted to spend a huge chunk
of its resources to found a separate P2P
sharing site in 2004 instead of focusing of
basic sns functions.
• Google, the worlds richest and biggest
website didn’t care much about and invest
in Orkut.
• 6 Degrees.com was not discovered by
many of us and just went out of business.
• People thought Friendster was a dating
site even though its features were pretty
much the same with Facebook.
32. • Better communication skills
• Better English Skills
• Better Presentation Skills
• Better business Skills
• Better leadership skills
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