Pakistan

Megan Fox: the subcontinent’s #1 star?

May 01, 2010

KARACHI: An analysis of 210 million users of the social networking website Facebook shows that Pakistani and Indian users of the website love Megan Fox.

The website (fanpageanalytics. com) has a map of the world’s Facebook users and what they ‘like’ on Facebook. (The popular website provides an option to ‘like’ a cause, celebrity or a status update by a user). Pakistan’s celebrity choices include sports stars as well as Megan Fox, who is a veritable pin-up star for men.

The celebrities on the top ten list of ‘likes’ are footballer Cristiano Ronaldo (#4), Fast and Furious actor Vin Diesel (#5), the Swiss tennis champion Roger Federer (#6) and Megan Fox (#7). While Fox is #7 on Pakistan’s list, she ranks at #2 for India’s Facebook users. Actor Vin Diesel, on the other hand, tops the list for neighbouring Bangladesh. Other celebrities that Bangladeshi Facebook users love include Ronaldo and Federer as well as Michael Jackson, A R Rahman and Maria Sharapova.

Facebook has become extremely popular in Pakistan over the past three years. From just a handful of users in 2007, the website now has thousands of Pakistani users including former President Pervez Musharraf. Interestingly enough, Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi Facebook users all have the most friends from the USA.

Indian Facebook users also ‘like’ the song “Tera Hone Laga Hoon” by Pakistani singer Atif Aslam – it is eighth on their list. The song was part of the Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani soundtrack. But in Afghanistan, Facebook users aren’t as into the celebrity allure as their South Asian neighbours. The most fan subscriptions are for Shukria Barakzai, an Afghan politician, journalist and feminist.

Pakistanis are also more tech-obsessed than Afghans, Bangladeshis or Indians. The fan page for ‘I really hate slow computers’ comes in at #9.

COMMENTS (9)

Imran | 14 years ago | Reply I do not know Megan Fox There are more beautiful women here then Megan Katrina, Ashwari wake up befor writing

Sarah | 14 years ago | Reply What hit me like a bullet was this sentence "the website now has thousands of Pakistani users" You have to be JOKING!!! Thousands???Pakistan has MILLIONS of facebook users.According to Mr Rafay Alam's article recently in The News ( http://www.thenews.com.pk/editorial_detail.asp?id=240311 ) the number is 40 Million!!Yes,you read that correctly! Please do your research before writing and especially posting your articles.The above piece seems like it was written in haste just to fill space.It's childish and amateur.

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Hammad | 14 years ago | Reply well whether I liked the article or not is one thing but seriously they could have used a better pic of megan fox :(

Anushe | 14 years ago | Reply When you write about a topic it's absolutely essential to include details as well as verifications. Most of your articles lack a ring of authenticity. It seems as if you're aiming to be controversial rather than informative. Because of this, your articles usually lack substance. In order to improve, you have to concentrate on making your articles more conclusive e.g. this article in particular has a rather abrupt end. You don't necessarily have to change the matter your write about, you have to change your style of writing and add more figures and statistics to make it more believable.

Juvaria Jafri | 14 years ago | Reply "From just a handful of users in 2007, the website now has thousands of Pakistani users". I find this hard to believe. I've been using Facebook in Pakistan since before 2007 and have since then had well over "handful" of others in Pakistan on my own contact list. Your newspaper is developing the unfortunate tendency of throwing out assertions with no backing. Please try to remember that this is not a blog or a dining room conversation. Your readers are intelligent people and would like to see some verification with numbers and sources.

Faheem | 14 years ago | Reply Saba imtiaz....As Mirka has pointed out....Roger Federer is Swiss...

jahanzaib.haque | 14 years ago Article updated accordingly!

Waqar Saleem | 14 years ago | Reply Seems like the Tribune is starved of real news.

Mirka | 14 years ago | Reply Roger Federer is a Swiss.

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