[img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/50421000/gif/_50421293_facebook_conn_image_976x462.gif[/img]
:siren: Super high res version! :siren:
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11989723[/url]
[quote][b]Facebook intern Paul Butler has been poring through some of the data held by the social networking firm on its 500m members.[/b]
The map above is the result of his attempts to visualise where people live relative to their Facebook friends. Each line connects cities with pairs of friends. The brighter the line, the more friends between those cities.
After tweaking the graphic and data set it produced a "surprisingly detailed map of the world," he said in a blog post.
"Not only were continents visible, certain international borders were apparent as well," he wrote.
"What really struck me, though, was knowing that the lines didn't represent coasts or rivers or political borders, but real human relationships."
However, large chunks of the world are missing, such as China and central Africa, where Facebook has little presence.[/quote]
Was linked this by a friend of mine, quite impressive!
Heh, Canada and Russia.
Would make a bitching wallpaper.
Note non-existence of Siberia.
igloos don't have internet
It's funny how Africa and most of Russia are completely black.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;26692703]Note non-existence of Siberia.[/QUOTE]
More like note the nonexistence of North Korea.
Wow it looks like defcon.
[QUOTE=SCopE5000;26692743]Wow it looks like defcon.[/QUOTE]
Exactly what I thought :v:
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;26692734]More like note the nonexistence of North Korea.[/QUOTE]
Oh wow I didn't notice that.
[QUOTE=themeatsword;26692702]Would make a bitching wallpaper.[/QUOTE]
If you go through to the blog post there's a 3mb high res version of it.
Everyone else noticed that if you tilt your head 90 degrees, Europe kinda looks like a hunchback, with a penis coming out of its back?
Hah, you can see a line separating Spain and Portugal.
[QUOTE=BurnEmDown;26692810]Everyone else noticed that if you tilt your head 90 degrees, Europe kinda looks like a hunchback, with a penis coming out of its back?[/QUOTE]
:geno:
[QUOTE=Rasrap Smurf;26692862]Hah, you can see a line separating Spain and Portugal.[/QUOTE]
That's truly awesome.
[QUOTE=BurnEmDown;26692810]Everyone else noticed that if you tilt your head 90 degrees, Europe kinda looks like a hunchback, with a penis coming out of its back?[/QUOTE]
Can't see shit
There's more users in the frozen north of Scandinavia than in any one country in most of Asia.
With some man with a chisel nailing his back.
[QUOTE=BurnEmDown;26692810]Everyone else noticed that if you tilt your head 90 degrees, Europe kinda looks like a hunchback, with a penis coming out of its back?[/QUOTE]
holy fuck what
:aaaaa:
[QUOTE=BurnEmDown;26692810]Everyone else noticed that if you tilt your head 90 degrees, Europe kinda looks like a hunchback, with a penis coming out of its back?[/QUOTE]
and it looks like a guy is jacking off that penis
I cannot see Best Korea, what is the meaning of this!
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;26692714]It's funny how Africa and most of Russia are completely black.[/QUOTE]
Africa isn't as black as Russia.
It's strange how it looks so veiny, yet artificial.
If you look at the bottom right, there's some island with three lines going out to a complete stop in the middle of the sea.
[QUOTE=General_Xing;26693425]Africa isn't as black as Russia.[/QUOTE]
Inner continental Africa I meant
Wallpapered
Russia is black because they have russian social networks, not because they have no internet...
why isnt there a higher resolution of this
It looks like Frozen Synapse!
[img_thumb]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/50421000/gif/_50421293_facebook_conn_image_976x462.gif[/img_thumb]
[img_thumb]http://www.frozensynapse.com/images/crossMap.jpg[/img_thumb]
[editline]14th December 2010[/editline]
[QUOTE=General_Xing;26693602]why isnt there a higher resolution of this[/QUOTE]
Because there is.
[QUOTE=smurfy;26693545]Wallpapered[/QUOTE]
good to know, bro.
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