A Facebook employee tried to visualize the global friendships in the social network. This uses a representative of the American record with 10 million friends. In fact, it is clear from all friendship links a fairly accurate map of the world. Paul Butler, an American Facebook employees an amazing visualization of global Facebook friends has created. This was chosen by the programmer from a representative data set that consists of 10 million friendship relations. He then combined the two current homes of that friendship in the most direct route. The more friendships between the two places are, the brighter he colored the line between the two places.

The resulting image is in areas that are home to very many Facebook users, more accurately. In Europe and the Americas, it clearly shows the geographical outlines of countries and continents. Striking is also the fact that countries such as China and Russia are almost completely dyed black. At this point it is questionable whether the selected friendship pairs are truly representative of all the nearly 500 million Facebook users. Even within Germany can be significant color difference between the old and the new states recognize a. The exact procedure for creating the card, Paul Butler on his Facebook page .