A World Map Drawn With Facebook Connections

With the announcement of Mark Zuckerberg as Time’s 2010 “Person of the Year”, I thought it would be fitting to post this awesome map that’s been created by a Facebook engineer comprised solely of lines showing the connections between 10 million Facebook users around the world. (Full size image – 4.3 mb but worth it)

As the linked article notes, Russia, China and Brazil are three noticeable black holes, mainly because those countries have other dominant social networks instead of Facebook.

(via MetaFilter)

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