In terms of the activities that Thai people engage in on the Internet, 54.4 percent of people use it for emails, 52.5 percent use it for searching stuff, and 33.2 percent use it for social networks. The survey results indicate that over 90 percent of web users use social media. Facebook is still the most popular channel (Facebook 92.2 percent; YouTube 63.7 percent; Line 61.1 percent), which are normally used via smartphones. It’s very interesting to find out that almost half of the social media users have bought products or services through these channels at least once. 55 percent of Thai people have also used the Internet through devices such as laptops, smartphones, and tablets. The most popular device for browsing the internet is still desktop computers (45 percent), followed by notebooks (25.3 percent), smartphones (22.7 percent), tablets (6.8percent), and others (0.2 percent).

Facebook in context of social research (1 page)

With over 800 million active users, Facebook is changing the way hundreds of millions of people relate to one another and share information. A rapidly growing body of research has accompanied the meteoric rise of Facebook as social scientists assess the impact of Facebook on social life. In addition, researchers have recognized the utility of Facebook as a novel tool to observe behavior in a naturalistic setting, test hypotheses, and recruit participants. However, research on Facebook emanates from a wide variety of disciplines, with results being published in a broad range of journals and conference proceedings, making it difficult to keep track of various findings. And because Facebook is a relatively recent phenomenon, uncertainty still exists about the most effective ways to do Facebook research. To address these issues, the Robert E. Wilson who conducted a comprehensive literature search, identifying 412 relevant articles about Facebook, found that the related researches were sorted into 5 categories: descriptive analysis of users, motivations for using Facebook, identity presentation, the role of Facebook in social interactions, and privacy and information disclosure.

 
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