{"id":662,"date":"2011-02-24T07:58:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T13:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opengecko.com\/computers-2\/the-world-according-to-facebook\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T08:03:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T14:03:17","slug":"the-world-according-to-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/computers-2\/the-world-according-to-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"The World According to Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs1382.snc4\/163413_479288597199_9445547199_5658562_14158417_n.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"visualisation of where people live in relation to their facebook friends\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/nol\/shared\/spl\/hi\/sci_nat\/10\/facebook\/img\/facebook_conn_image_976x462.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">(Click on the image for original version).<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">I have only just come across this image, reported on by the <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-11989723\" target=\"_blank\"><font size=\"4\">BBC<\/font><\/a><font size=\"4\"> last December, based on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/facebook-engineering\/visualizing-friendships\/469716398919\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a> by a Facebook intern. It has been produced using actual Facebook data. Each line links pairs of \u2018friends\u2019. Brighter lines indicate more \u2018friends\u2019 between two given cities.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">The dark spaces, where Facebook connections are relatively absent, are as interesting to note as the bright areas where the number one social networking site has proliferated.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">It calls to mind the now classic image of the Earth\u2019s lights at night based on NASA satellite imagery, although Eastern China and Western Russia, for example, are far more luminous in that particular image \u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/image\/0011\/earthlights2_dmsp_big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/image\/0011\/earthlights2_dmsp_big.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">(Click on image for original version. Source: <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap001127.html\" target=\"_blank\"><font size=\"4\">NASA<\/font><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Click on the image for original version). I have only just come across this image, reported on by the BBC last December, based on a blog post by a Facebook intern. It has been produced using actual Facebook data. Each line links pairs of \u2018friends\u2019. Brighter lines indicate more \u2018friends\u2019 between two given cities. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[180,217],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-2","tag-maps","tag-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}