Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Facebook World

This visual shows ten million pairs of Facebook friend relationships. As is the case for many other sets of data, the visual also shows that activity occurs where people live.

Some will interpret the data as evidence of the borderless world of Facebook. Aside from that observation, the data also reflect that fact that people do things, make things and consume things where they live.

This visual also is evidence of where network-connected people live, not just where they communicate with, and are conntected to, "friends."

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