the world according to facebook

From the BBC: Using some of the information on friends data from facebook's 500m members, intern Paul Butler has constructed an interesting map of the world's connections. 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.

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[sam]

Here's an alternative view of the same map:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/57029495@N05/5261467662/#/photos/57029495@N05/5261467662/lightbox/

[sam]

Here is a mashup of the same facebook map on top of a NASA earth at night image. According to the author: "By subtracting one from the other, we get an image the shows only cities that don't use Facebook."

http://station.woj.com/2011/07/unfacebook-world.html