Let's get it started.
As an Uzbek netizen, from the heart of Central Asia, and who surfs popular Western websites such as 9gag and reddit, I'm puzzled and disappointed in absence of any handful online activity from my country. Internet penetration is not that low in here, users being more than 7 millions. But most of them use Russian social networks, not getting any further than mail.ru and odnoklassniki.ru services. Meanwhile, massive amount of users, generally youth, from distant countries like Serbia, Indonesia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan flood the tubes bragging about places of their origin. The largest open online encyclopedia, Wikipedia is being filled with information about countries and cities from respective countries and cities. You see an article on Baku written by Azeris, commentaries under news about Albania by Albanians themselves, etc. But Uzbekistani users are uncommon. What is the problem? The language barrier? Then why do thousands of Poles storm English language imageboards, leaving posts in English? Why do many young Brazilians write in English so well and crapflood 9gag comments? The language is not that hard. Or maybe people here are too poor to surf internets all day long, because they have to work? That doesn't explain many Uzbeks hanging out on social networking sites, spending hours to upload and download stuff. What's our problem?
As an Uzbek netizen, from the heart of Central Asia, and who surfs popular Western websites such as 9gag and reddit, I'm puzzled and disappointed in absence of any handful online activity from my country. Internet penetration is not that low in here, users being more than 7 millions. But most of them use Russian social networks, not getting any further than mail.ru and odnoklassniki.ru services. Meanwhile, massive amount of users, generally youth, from distant countries like Serbia, Indonesia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan flood the tubes bragging about places of their origin. The largest open online encyclopedia, Wikipedia is being filled with information about countries and cities from respective countries and cities. You see an article on Baku written by Azeris, commentaries under news about Albania by Albanians themselves, etc. But Uzbekistani users are uncommon. What is the problem? The language barrier? Then why do thousands of Poles storm English language imageboards, leaving posts in English? Why do many young Brazilians write in English so well and crapflood 9gag comments? The language is not that hard. Or maybe people here are too poor to surf internets all day long, because they have to work? That doesn't explain many Uzbeks hanging out on social networking sites, spending hours to upload and download stuff. What's our problem?
You can't explain that.
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Must be aliens.
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