Social Media is finally being accepted in Romania as a valid communication channel by more and more brands who choose to focus their campaigns online. This is because Facebook penetration in Romania doubled from January 2010 to March, rising from 6.7% to a total of 13.5% out of the total Romanian Internet Population, estimated at 7.5 million]

But Facebook is taking over other Eastern European countries faster than it is taking over Romania, where Hi5 still has a total of 2.25 million users. Based on Facebook’s own data we managed to scrape some info and plot it for nine Eastern European countries: Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia and Serbia

As a result, below you will find three bar plots:

* one comparing the numbers of Facebook users vs the number of Internet users in each country, plus the total population of each country;

* another one comparing the number of users Facebook has in each country on four age segments: 15-25; 25-35; 35-45; 45-64;
* and the last one comparing the number of men vs women each country has.

What do you make of this data?