Social Graph of Facebook

[o00o]

 

This is the social graph of facebook. Its pretty awesome and kind of scary at the same time. The lines show who is friend with who.

 

To my relief, what I saw was roughly an outline of the world. Next I erased the dots and plotted lines between the points. After a few minutes of rendering, a big white blob appeared in the center of the map. Some of the outer edges of the blob vaguely resembled the continents, but it was clear that I had too much data to get interesting results just by drawing lines. I thought that making the lines semi-transparent would do the trick, but I quickly realized that my graphing environment couldn’t handle enough shades of color for it to work the way I wanted.

Instead I found a way to simulate the effect I wanted. I defined weights for each pair of cities as a function of the Euclidean distance between them and the number of friends between them. Then I plotted lines between the pairs by weight, so that pairs of cities with the most friendships between them were drawn on top of the others. I used a color ramp from black to blue to white, with each line’s color depending on its weight. I also transformed some of the lines to wrap around the image, rather than spanning more than halfway around the world.

 

here you can read some more background information how it was created: http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-friendships-make-visually-stunning-map-2010-12

Edited December 14, 2010 by o00o

[kaini]

everyone in china uses QQ. and brazil, xanga?

[o00o]

everyone in china uses QQ. and brazil, xanga?

 

there are also pretty big holes in Africa

[Silent Member]

and soviet russia

[o00o]

its kind of interesting to compare it to this even so its a bit dated:

 

[Guest Beefuncle]

everyone in china uses QQ. and brazil, xanga?

 

They use orkut in brazil, facebook too but not as often.

[o00o]

 

its pretty distorted in the upper part so

Edited December 14, 2010 by o00o

[beariksson]

they use v kontakte in russia

http://vkontakte.ru/

[Braintree]

Canadians don't like facebook.

[Guest ruiagnelo]

wow, it is like a redefined world map

[chassis]

and in soviet russia

 

Book faces you.

[o00o]

[brian trageskin]

jesus christ, scandinavia totally looks like a cock

[kaini]

so does florida, in fairness.

[Guest sirch]

2012! 2012!!

[chassis]

NEWSFLASH: USA IS ELVIS EATING A COCK.

[baph]

Oh, god, the "facebook login" searchers.

[Guest sirch]

yar, the King eats cock! (in hell)

[chenGOD]

Canadians don't like facebook.

 

que?

 

I'm surprised that there's so much activity in South Korea, they're all on Cyworld. Although actually come to think of it I have seen quite a few of my Korean friends join facebook as well recently.

[o00o]