shrine to the prophet of americana

Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia. Here’s why

isaacsapphire:

kontextmaschine:

Cambodia prefers to conduct online conversation by voice rather than text because the 74-character Khmer alphabet is poorly suited to keyboards

It’s amazing how Facebook apparently didn’t hire a single person from the country/who speaks the language who they could just ask. Like, you’re entering an entire market and they apparently don’t have a Facebook Khmer/Cambodia team at all?!

Facebook didn’t particularly cause this situation, and it’s not particular to them, just they were the ones who saw metrics on text/voice share to notice it, presumably at earlier stages you had things like “AIM/ICQ isn’t taking share from phone calls as much as elsewhere” that didn’t show up as clearly