Beyond Facebook: Other Online Networks
“Everyone was duly blown away by this amazing map of Facebook connections around the world, created by Facebook’s superstar intern Paul Butler…Gaetz simply took the lines of Butler’s map, colored them black, and overlaid them against another map, showing all of the areas in the world with a population over 2 people per square mile. Which already is pretty revealing — you can see that vast tracts of land where plenty of people live are actually left out of Butler’s map altogether.”
Gaetz’s map shows that some of the dark spots on Butler’s original map indicate the strength and presence of other social networks (e.g., Orkut) as opposed to a small population or low GDP.
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