This world map is drawn using Facebook connections only. It was created by Paul Butler using connections between 10 million Facebook friends. The result is a remarkably good approximation of most continents and even the borders of some countries appear. China and Russia, however, seem to be missing in the Facebook empire.


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  • How would the world looking from the point of view of a chinese social network? should be quite intersting to compare..

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  • @steve: So? Of course, somewhere the connection with geographical space has to be made. The interesting mapping part is that some regions become very visible, whereas others less so.

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  • "Then I merged the data with the longitude and latitude of each city."

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