50 million Burmese people use the Internet for the first time: "circle of friends" rumors media company Dizzy-IT information
In 2014, Myanmar is also less than 1% per cent of the population has Internet access permissions. But it seems that overnight, "the net" from Myanmar ushered in the boom, facing the bizarre world of the Internet with the coming of the Burmese people expressed some Mongolian ring ... ...
2011 in Myanmar, a mobile phone SIM card up to sell us $3000, and usually only the Myanmar officials and relatives had the right to buy, at that time, only 0.2% of the Myanmar population has a mobile phone.
Even by the year 2013, buy SIM cards in Myanmar still spend $250, far exceeded the level of most of the locals can afford, because Myanmar's average monthly wage is less than $200.
However, this final change in 2014.
Myanmar Government at the beginning of the year to allow enterprises to enter the international telecommunications market, Internet also began to enter households. Shortly thereafter, China end
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▲ Myanmar Smartphone stores
Driving along the Irrawaddy Delta on the outskirts of (Irrawaddy Delta), and we can also see that in terms of light green rice fields, everywhere is under construction of cell phone towers.
Meanwhile, the number of mobile users in Myanmar during the last five years of rapid growth, only starting from 500,001 up to 22 million.
Meanwhile, the lives of the people of Myanmar also experienced a series of shock, realized the benefits of new technologies and challenges. Myanmar's low price, frequent power shortages, poor infrastructure of the Internet, which means that smartphone users growth has led to many of the country's population of 53 million people met for the first time to the Internet.
"This time last year, owning a Smartphone is also considered a status symbol, people who own smart phones can hold its parade. Now, every family has at least one Smartphone is very normal, some people even have many ministries. "Yangon, a social entrepreneurship organization officer Phyu Hninn Nyein said.
Just bought the phone to remove
The World Bank estimated that Burma currently has 20% per cent of the population has access to the Internet, most of them in the past two years between the first "hits".
In contrast, United States in 1989, spent seven years after the real popularity of the Internet to achieve 20% of the population "the net" target. As the world's fastest Internet speed of India, which currently has yet to achieve.
In recent years, Donald Trump (Donald Trump) the name for the people of Myanmar are new, but the popularity of the Internet has made the Trump is well known to the people of Myanmar.
"In the beginning few people know him, and then, almost everyone knows the man, that's the power of the Internet. "Burma's a 19 year old student Shar Ya Wai said.
With more than 50 million people in Myanmar, Shar Ya Wai also recently started to anticipate the dynamics of the outside world. Not long ago, she moved to the Centre of Yangon cell phone store, bought a Huawei Smartphone, this phone is in her age group are very popular models.
▲ Sells mobile phone peripheral products, Myanmar hawker
However, strictly speaking this is not first time Shar Ya Wai "the net", after she had been through his uncle's old-style Tablet PC view of ex on Facebook dynamic, but also learned about Thailand latest band.
After her uncle bought the old tablets. In the eyes of Shar Ya Wai, his network experience to date is very complex, because it seems that everyone wants to express their views in an open space, but the Internet is filled with all kinds of information are continuingly.
"My father is a man who usually talk to be very careful, he wants us to be able to speak. But I am more energetic like my mother, I like to communicate with others, but the Internet is not the same but still the same I thought. ”
Prior to this, Shar Ya Wai's father did not approve of her buying a smart phone, father wants her big, "security" used to buy her. But Shar Ya Wai did not know that so-called "network security" actually refers to what.
Holding the new Huawei cell phones out of the crowded marketplace, although Shar Ya Wai wait to open new phone, but it never did.
"Maybe I'm the one o'clock in the evening and then to boot, with his family when opened. "Shar Ya Wai said.
Myanmar people thought the Internet was Facebook
As of right now, Facebook's influence in Burma is hard to quantify, but the social media local dominance is obvious, many people can't distinguish "Internet" and "Facebook" the difference between these two words.
▲ Burmese language version of Facebook use
Amara Digital marketing research firm revealed that Facebook success himself last year doubled the number of monthly active users on the ground, from 9.7 million.
But after Facebook launched the Free Basics service (this service is only provided limited access to the Internet, and that means accessible websites are Facebook), the expected number of monthly active users of the platform will have increased significantly.
Shar Ya Wai did not hold back in the end, to open the new Huawei cell phone, but she does not open Facebook or any other application in the shop.
"I'll be using Facebook, I have to use ... ... Because that's what (the Internet) world. "Shar Ya Wai said.
Never saw Burmese media group network news cast
In addition, due to the popular news site in Myanmar, many traditional print started, citing information from the network. Moreover, these media have largely invoked the most sensational, but never wrong to judge the authenticity of the content. For example, when eating hot food, drink ice water thrown stomach problems, Thailand's Cabinet Member is dating the Olympic gymnast ... ...
These examples above a red herring, but limited impact. However, we seem to see in the near future the Internet has appeared in the media denigrate the Muslim community of the article, the article even claims that a large number of Muslims to attack Buddhist ruins. And, like news spread very quickly in the social media, even local people launched anti-Muslim processions.
If the number of false news are available to United States presidential election have a decisive impact, then in the media industry is still immature in Myanmar, and its negative impact is all the more worrying, I'm afraid.
Share phone content ▲ Myanmar youths in
"People will not discuss their normal news seen on Facebook, they will only discuss those wonderful news. I have never before heard of Trump, but all of a sudden are talking about him. ”
Shar Ya Wai said he had the same friends for "getting expelled Muslim families live in the suburbs" it launched a heated topic, but only because the newly elected United States President Trump had claimed during the campaign "to stop Muslim immigration United States".
"All my friends say, ' this is a good idea ', we should also like Americans. "Shar Ya Wai said.
In addition, Shar Ya Wai many net friends because the Internet open and various extreme ideas of touch and set up his own radical ideas. This is mainly because, the more paranoid and more amazing the more you can climb Burma network headlines layout, and this news is true or not and nobody would notice.
5000万缅甸人首次用互联网：“朋友圈”谣言让媒体头晕 - IT资讯
在2014年，缅甸还只有不到1%的人口拥有互联网接入权限。但似乎是一夜之间，“触网”的缅甸人迎来了爆发式增长，面对光怪陆离的网络世界，初来乍到的缅甸人表示有点蒙圈……
2011年的缅甸，一张手机SIM卡最高卖到3000美元，而且通常只有缅甸高官和亲属才有权利购买，那个时候，缅甸人口中只有0.2%拥有手机。
即便到了2013年，在缅甸购买SIM卡仍旧要花250美元，远超过大部分本地人能够承受的水平，因为缅甸的平均月工资水平还不到200美元。
然而，这一切最终在2014年迎来变化。
缅甸政府在这一年开始允许国际电信企业进入国内市场，互联网也开始进入千家万户。此后不久，中国生产的低端href="http://android.ithome.com/" target="_blank">Android智能机在该国随处可见。
▲缅甸的智能手机卖场
驱车沿着城郊的伊洛瓦底江三角洲（Irrawaddy Delta）前行，我们也可以看到，在浅绿色的水稻田上，随处都是在建中的手机信号塔。
同时，缅甸移动用户的数量在过去短短的五年里快速增长，从开始仅有的50万一直增加到2200万。
与此同时，缅甸人民的生活也经历了一系列震动，体会到了新技术所带来的便利和挑战。缅甸的电价低，经常出现供电短缺，互联网基础设施落后，这些情况意味着，智能手机用户的增长使得该国5300万人口中的许多人第一次认识了互联网。
“去年这个时候，拥有一部智能手机还被认为是社会地位的象征，拥有智能手机的人可以一直拿着它到处炫耀。现在，每个家庭至少有一部智能手机已经是很正常的了，有的人家里甚至有许多部。”仰光某社会企业家组织干事Phyu Hninn Nyein说道。
刚买的手机舍不得拆
世界银行估计，缅甸目前有20%的人口均已经接触到了互联网，其中大部分是在过去两年间首次“触网”。
作为对比，美国在1989年互联网开始真正普及后花费了整整七年才实现20%人口“触网”的目标。而作为全球互联网发展速度最快的印度，这一目前到现在也没有实现。
就在不久前，唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）这个名字对缅甸人民来说还很陌生，但互联网的普及却让特朗普为缅甸人所熟知。
“一开始几乎没有人认识他，然后，几乎所有人都知道这个人了，这就是互联网的力量。”缅甸一名19岁的学生Shar Ya Wai说道。
同缅甸5000多万人口一样，Shar Ya Wai也是在最近才开始洞悉外部世界的动态。不久前，她前往仰光市中心手机卖场，购买了一部华为智能手机，这部手机也是她这个年龄段群体中非常流行的一款机型。
▲卖手机周边产品的缅甸小贩
不过，严格来说这其实并不算是Shar Ya Wai第一次“触网”，因为此前她曾通过自己舅舅的老式平板电脑查看过前男友在Facebook上的动态，同时也了解到了泰国最新流行的乐队。
之后，她从舅舅手中买下了这台老式平板电脑。在Shar Ya Wai看来，自己到目前为止的网络使用体验非常复杂，因为似乎每个人都希望在这个开放空间表达观点，但网络上充斥的各种信息往往真假难辨。
“我父亲是一位平时说话非常小心的人，他也希望我们能够谨言慎行。但我却更像母亲一样充满活力，我喜欢同别人交流，但互联网却依旧同我想象中不太一样。”
在此之前，Shar Ya Wai的父亲一直不同意她购买智能手机，父亲希望等她大一点，能够“安全”使用的时候再给她买。但Shar Ya Wai根本不知道所谓的“网络安全”究竟是指什么。
抱着新买的华为手机走出人头攒动的商场后，虽然Shar Ya Wai迫不及待地想要打开新手机，但却始终没有这么做。
“或许我该晚一点再开机，等到和家人在一起的时候再打开。”Shar Ya Wai说道。
缅甸人以为互联网就是Facebook
就目前而言，Facebook在缅甸的影响力很难量化，但这一社交媒体在当地的统治力却是显而易见的，许多人甚至分不清“互联网”和“Facebook”这两个词语之间的区别。
▲缅甸语版的Facebook使用守则
市场调研机构Amara Digital透露，Facebook在去年一年就成功使自己在当地的月活用户数实现翻番，至970万人。
而在Facebook推出Free Basics服务后（该服务只提供有限的互联网接入,而且这些可接入的网站都是Facebook一手包办的），外界预计该平台的月活用户数还将迎来大幅增长。
Shar Ya Wai最后还是没忍住，自行打开了新买的华为手机，但她并没有在店内就打开Facebook或者其他应用。
“我会使用Facebook的，我必须得用……因为这就是（互联网）世界。”Shar Ya Wai说道。
从没见过网络假新闻的缅甸媒体集体蒙圈
另外，由于新闻站点在缅甸非常受欢迎，许多传统纸媒都开始援引来自网络上的信息。而且，这些媒体大多援引极具轰动效应的内容，却从来不对内容的真实性加以判断。比如，吃热食物的时候喝冰水会引发胃病、泰国内阁成员正在和奥林匹克体操运动员约会等……
上述这些例子虽然真实性存疑，但至少影响力有限。不过，我们近期似乎看到缅甸互联网媒体上出现了不少诋毁穆斯林群体的文章，这些文章甚至声称大量穆斯林教徒在攻击佛教遗址。而且，类似新闻在社交媒体上的传播速度极快，甚至引发当地群众展开了反穆斯林游行。
如果说许多虚假新闻都可以对美国总统大选产生决定性影响的话，那么在媒体行业尚不成熟缅甸，其负面影响恐怕就更加令人担心了。
▲缅甸年轻人在分享手机上看到的内容
“人们并不会讨论自己在Facebook上看到的正常新闻，他们只会讨论那些奇葩的消息。我之前从来都没有听说过特朗普，但一时间突然所有人都在讨论他。”
Shar Ya Wai说，自己曾同朋友为“要不要驱逐居住在郊区的穆斯林家庭”这一话题展开过激烈争吵，而这仅仅是因为新当选的美国总统特朗普曾在竞选时声称“要阻止穆斯林入境美国”而已。
“我的朋友们都说‘这是一个好主意’，我们也应该和美国人一样。”Shar Ya Wai说道。
此外，Shar Ya Wai许多已经触网的朋友都因为互联网的开放以及各种极端思想的触及而建立起了自己的激进理念。这主要是因为，越是偏执、越是看起来不可思议的内容越是可以攀上缅甸网络媒体的头条版面，而这一新闻的内容真实与否根本没人理会。