Facebook Connections Map the World
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Facebook intern Paul Butler has been poring through some of the data held by the social networking firm on its 500m members.
The map above is the result of his attempts to visualise where people live relative to their Facebook friends. Each line connects cities with pairs of friends. The brighter the line, the more friends between those cities.
After tweaking the graphic and data set it produced a "surprisingly detailed map of the world," he said in a blog post.
"Not only were continents visible, certain international borders were apparent as well," he wrote.
"What really struck me, though, was knowing that the lines didn't represent coasts or rivers or political borders, but real human relationships."
However, large chunks of the world are missing, such as China and central Africa, where Facebook has little presence.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11989723
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Posted: 2010-12-14 10:37:07
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that's so cool, I just saw myself on the "facebook social plugin"
haha I see you a lot there too. I see darius the most though.
I keep seeing my cousin and DennisDee on there
he forgot Iceland... WHO COULD DO SUCH A THING D:
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the guy who made this map is 50% retarded according to the stretchiness of Greenland and Iceland, also the distances there make no sense :/
the guy who made this map is 50% retarded according to the stretchiness of Greenland and Iceland, also the distances there make no sense :/
if it's made by computer, then why can't the friggin computer get a regular map instead of a stretchy, fucked up map from a troll page on the internet?!?
the map is created by facebook connections, everywhere a facebook account is active there is a white dot so it creates a map of the world but doesn't show countries that have access to facebook such as China or central Africa.
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lol had to be done