How connected you are through Facebook?

Photo from: fastcodesign.com

Since Facebook was celebrating its 10^th year anniversary, let’s talk about Facebook. J The map above was done by Paul Butler, an intern on Facebook’s data infrastructure engineering team. The map was created because of Paul’s curiosity about the locality of friendship, and what better way to show it than using linkages clamped by Facebook. The objective of this map is really simple, it just wants to show the linkages of people through Facebook, how connected are the people from one another beyond boundaries of countries. In a larger scale, how connected are the countries from the others or how open they are.

But what I find interesting about this map is, if we would observe, we could see that some countries are still not connected to the social cyber realm. We might say that these areas that are blacked-out are perhaps inhabited by people, or internet is not accessible, or the government does not permit them to use social networking sites.  

In addition, we could say that this map is a powerful tool to examine people’s social cyber activities. One couldn't deny the fact that the people are connected and through the employment of social networking sites like Facebook, everyone gets more connected regardless of distance.

Blogpost by: Aisha Macud

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