How to Access Facebook in China

The biggest social network in the world, Facebook has no plans in the near future to enter the China market. This opinion is expressed the Director for North Asia Janey Lang during a conference on social media in Hong Kong. A year and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a similar statement. He also said that his company will not rush to get the exchange. Less than six months after, however, the social network has become a public company. China is the largest market for Internet companies, because only in this country are about a quarter of Internet users in the world, reports the International Telecommunication Union, part of the United Nations. Local companies dominate the Chinese market, in part because the government allows only partial services of Google and Facebook. English-language site Facebook has been blocked in China since 2008. This social network with about 950 million subscribers has zero market shares in the huge market. Instead there flourished Chinese alternatives such as Renren and Sina, but are subject to state censorship. The documents for the Facebook IPO, said he did not know if he could "to find an approach to manage content and information in a way that is acceptable to us and the Chinese government." In China currently have over 538 million Internet users at over 1.34 billion people in total. Before embarking on Facebook, Janey Lang was responsible to Google for sales in the Asia-Pacific. When social network officially announced her appointment, analysts believe that the company can focus on the China market. For now, Lang sells advertising primarily in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Last year, the operator of the largest social network in the world opened an office in Hong Kong, which has the status of a special administrative region of China. Then from Facebook saying they hope to gain advertisers Asian country that targeting customers beyond. In addition to Facebook at the moment the Chinese government imposed bans on access to various social networking sites like Twitter and YouTube to Google. Authorities seek to restrict access to the Internet and content related to gambling, pornography and distributing anti-government material that could undermine the power of the ruling Communist.

Published on 18th Mar 2013 @ 8:56 AM