If there is a correlation between people posting less and fear of being rejected from future jobs, I wonder if Facebook will see more posting as the job market continues to improve (and vice versa). Would be interesting to plot out.
As in, many people in the West have been using social media for a long time and now don't care for it it as much, or are more particular in their use, while in the Philippines it's a relatively new phenomenon across age-groups?
That's assuming that social media use is newer in the Philippines, of course. I have no clue if that's actually the case.
I remember a time that everyone was on this whole 'chat thing' via IRC (some), ICQ, and whatnot. You chatted with strangers and friends alike; chat was the goal itself. In later years of high school this died down and we mostly used chat apps (in particular MSN Messenger) to actually get stuff done. Chat was just the tool.
Now at this same time, internet had just become a big thing in Albania, and I remember people from all ages doing what I'd been doing in my early teens: random chats with people from around the world, just for the sake of it. The only difference was that they did it in internet cafés while I always had a home computer. Conversations with a number of people from Eastern Europe give me the same impression: regardless of age, they went through a 'chat phase' significantly later than those in Holland.