[/caption]A man named Paul Butler recently made a map of the world. His map is a bit different from the maps that we are used to as he made it using data graphs. He is a Facebook intern, so it was not unusual that he would use his information there to make a graph. He basically decided to connect all of people's Facebook friendships and current locations to see how things were distributed.
The result was what Butler called, "a surprisingly detailed map of the world. Not only were continents visible, certain international borders were apparent as well. What really struck me, though, was knowing that the lines didn't represent coasts or rivers or political borders, but real human relationships."
The interesting thing about this map is the absence of some countries, like China, for example. This absence is because Facebook is blocked in China. This leads to them not being graphed because even if they do visit the site via a proxy, they are shown as visitors from a different country.
There are some other countries that aren't very lit up such as Canada and Russia. This is due to them not being very widely populated in the areas that aren't lit up. It gets pretty cold way up north and not very many people live there, and those that do have better things to do than to spend their days on Facebook.
This map shows the interconnectivity of human relationships across the globes, and how much we depend on the internet to stay in touch these days. This also shows that maybe China should let up on their system of blocking such communications websites. It would be a very valuable asset to the growing nation.
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