Facebook Friends

In: Culture Internet/tech Maps

14 Dec 2010

Facebook engineering intern Paul Butler mapped out a global network of 10 million friendships.  Some interesting things about the image: there aren’t any country outlines on the map – the countries “appear” as drawn by the network lines themselves; China, Russia, and Brazil are barely visible because they are dominated by non-Facebook social networks

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