Data here in my country (Philippines) is to expensive, around $2.00 good po three days and that $2.00 is equivalent to 2 1/2 kgs. rice which is good for 1 week for an average person.

Using hive is is really expensive, and not all users will make money daily knowing money thing. Therefore, instead of buying data for three days, they rather choose a handful of rice and go Facebook where each user is given 1 GB of data for free in daily basis.