Global surge in social media use
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People in the Philippines spend the most time on social media, according
to a survey of 31 countries by GlobalWebIndex, gazing at their mobiles for a daily average of four hours and 11 minutes
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Daily time spent on social media (hours:minutes) 

Philippines  4:11
Mexico  3:12
UAE 3:11
Malaysia  3:09 
South Africa  3:04
Saudi Arabia  2:57 
India  2:30
U.S.  2:08
Hong Kong  1:57        
Sweden   1:54 
UK     1:53
Canada    1:49 
Italy     1:44 
Poland    1:44
Australia   1:39 
Netherlands   1:21
South Korea   1:11
Germany   1:07
Japan     0:39
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7.636bn World population in third quarter 2018

1.857bn Social media users 2014

3.484bn Social media users Jul-Sep 2018
More than combined populations of China, India and U.S.
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Source: GlobalWebIndex survey of 113,932 internet users aged 16-64, Q3, 2018              © GRAPHIC NEWS