6 out of 10 Filipinos flock to church Facebook pages for lent masses ---capstone -intel

A social listening report from Capstone-Intel revealed that 6 out of 10 Filipinos, or 64.7 percent of Filipino social media users in the country, are flocking to Facebook pages of Catholic Churches, particularly to Quiapo Church to watch livestreams dedicated to the online masses for the lenten season. Capstone-Intel Corporation is a high-impact research company that uses innovative research technologies, tools, and methods to convert data and information into breakthrough insights and actionable intelligence outputs. It is committed to helping its clients solve problems, find solutions, grow markets and constituencies, build reputations, navigate risks, manage crises, and be the country’s leading private research and intelligence agency. Methodology Capstone-Intel Corp. examined the online presence of Lenten season in the country as a topic of discussion and identified the behaviors of Filipino social media users about the topic from February 14, the start of Lenten season, to March 22, 2024, by utilizing all publicly accessible posts from social and non-social media platforms in order to gather the sentiments of the public about the religious observance. Facebook Performance Capstone-Intel found that “Lent” garnered a 976,318.7 engagement score for its 4,556 total post count, which yielded over 4,996,295 total reaction count. The bulk of the engagement score and total post count were all attributed to the relevance of the observance in the country, including the livestreams that most social media users tend to react to and engage in, emphasizing the reasons behind the increased presence of the topic on the platform. When broken down, “Facebook love” accounts for 64.7 percent of the total reactions, with 3,234,315. Followed by “Facebook like” with 1,757,769 reactions (35.2 percent), “Facebook sad” with 1,631, “Facebook angry” with 962, “Facebook haha” with 851, and “Facebook wow” with 767 reactions. Looking at the data, the majority of “Facebook love” reactions can be seen as the support of Filipino social media users regarding the accessibility of livestreams on the platform, as most of the top posts these users are interacting with are all livestreams from Quiapo Church dedicated to the observance of the Lenten season. In connection, 37.7 percent of interaction shares online about the topic came from “Quiapo Lent Masses” and “Lenten Devotions,” with 7.2 percent interaction shares. This only means that aside from “lent,” social media users also talk about masses in Quiapo and lenten devotions. Interactions share show how much engagement the topic generates from the audience from all posts related to the topic. Online mentions Capstone-Intel likewise revealed that Lent received 100 percent positive mentions. This means that the article mentions about the religious observance were all angled positively. On the other hand, it is also worth noting that the religious observance received 292,425,197 social media reach, while its non-social media reach yielded over 410,906 non-social media reach. Sources of top posts In terms of top posts, 47.8 percent of mentions for the topic came from Facebook, followed by TikTok with 22 percent, and X (formerly Twitter) with 17.8 percent of topic mentions.

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