The Social Networks World

Recently, in class, we have discussed social networks in relevance to geography. For instance, do people in the U.S. use Facebook just as much as people in Singamore use Friendster?

Well, I did a little bit of research, and found an article that showed an interesting visual...


The areas are color coded by dominant social networks by country. In the site, you can see a chart see this information, but in a text chart.

According to the site...

Some patterns from the data:

• Orkut leads in the Indian subcontinent, as well as Brazil;
• Facebook is stronger, internationally, than Myspace, with surprising strongholds in the Middle East;
• hi5.com is the most international of all the social networks, leading in Peru, Colombia, Central America, and other, scattered countries such as Mongolia, Romania, and Tunisia;
• both Bebo and Skyblog follow colonial patterns, the first strong in smaller English-speaking countries such as Ireland and New Zealand, and the latter in Francophone countries;
• and Friendster, the original social network, leads all across Southeast Asia.
• Fotolog, a photo service defeated in the US by Friendster, has re-emerged as the dominant social network in Argentina and Chile.

I personally, only use Facebook, and have seen, first-hand, the impact of this social network in regards to both social facets, as well as how advertisers have slowly began to take over it. It would be interesting to know if it has had similar effects in other countries..