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  • dcd722, on 02/26/2008, -1/+197The part of Africa that is grayed out doesn't use social networking, they use email, their princes die all the time and offer me money.
    • wisam, on 02/26/2008, -5/+6I'd say it's fairly accurate at least when it comes to Egypt. Facebook is very popular here yet nearly nobody uses damn MySpace.
      • neko6, on 02/26/2008, -0/+2Same with Israel. Guess its a geographic thing... :P
    • rivalius13, on 02/26/2008, -4/+3ME TOO!!! What are the odds?
    • springboks, on 02/26/2008, -10/+1Your comment is pretty ignorant, and so are the 114 people that dugg your comment.

      The part of Africa that is grayed out - Approx 90% is grayed out.
      doesn't use social networking - I'm in East Africa (Kenya) Yes, it's true we're all savages, we're probably also running around with a goatskin for clothing.
      their princes die all the time and offer me money. - Yes that entire grayed out part of Africa has princes.
      • trixnfx, on 02/26/2008, -2/+1What was that whooshing sound?

        Oh yeah, what dcd722 said whooshed over your head.
      • springboks, on 02/26/2008, -4/+2Actually, I'm pretty familiar with the Nigerian email scam! They are represented as "skyblog" users. Hardly the "grayed out" part of Africa.

        ...whoosh
        • Godlike, on 02/27/2008, -1/+2So in that case, you are just ignorantly belligerent?
      • rivalius13, on 02/26/2008, -5/+2Do you have a plate in your lower lip? What did you do with that $2 I gave to Oxfam?
        • Godlike, on 02/27/2008, -0/+2Do you need a savagery enchant for your spear?

          I need to level enchanting...
    • robbiemuffin, on 02/29/2008, -0/+1one of the better spoof comments I've read on dig. :)
      • snowbell2, on 05/08/2008, -0/+1I agree. It's been a few weeks since I've receievd an official summons of my long lost fortune left to me by a foreign ruler.
  • seth123q, on 02/26/2008, -2/+47africa looks like they have a lot of fun on the internet
    • neiltc13, on 02/26/2008, -0/+17Yeah, the internet is MUCH better when you don't visit any social networking sites.
    • jacekpoplawski, on 02/26/2008, -3/+3According to this map Russia is more interested in social networking than China, Poland or Finland together.
      • kevincannon, on 02/26/2008, -0/+3No, the map just has limited data available.
      • charmgene, on 02/27/2008, -0/+1agree. In China, social networking is rather popular now, Xiaonei.com is very a very popular facebook-like social net-working site in China's most uiniversities and expanding to so-called white-collar working people vary fast, for example. not to say nameless other sites gaining steady and fast growth.
        this map just has so limited data,
  • segiterrus, on 02/26/2008, -2/+94omg so true, on my visit to Philippines, first thing my cousin wo cant speak englsih asks me is "do u hab a friendster" im surprised, but i automatically say i have a "myspace" right after i say this he say " Puck You" and those were the only english words ive ever heard my cousin say...
    • ccourt23, on 02/26/2008, -3/+9haha
    • Theisos, on 02/26/2008, -1/+10Dugg for "do u hab a friendster"
    • elbonito665, on 02/26/2008, -0/+28actually its "prendster" here in the Philippines. I also have a prendster, so my friends won't puck me. lol.
      • ArchiTech, on 02/26/2008, -1/+3This comment made my day :)... ...shows how much fun North American diggers have it in the 9-5...
    • g8trGTO, on 02/26/2008, -5/+1My mom & dad love 2 Pac.
    • grouchyman, on 02/26/2008, -0/+4That's hella pinoy!
    • Jordan117, on 02/26/2008, -0/+7Hatred of MySpace transcends all linguistic and cultural divides. Amazing.
  • redditcopypaste, on 02/26/2008, -2/+26I've been amazed about how Facebook swept through Canada even though it was started by Americans. And yet, Myspace still runs rampant in the U.S.
    I like Myspace for the selection of indy bands, but prefer Facebook for what used to represent simplicity.
    • DeFex, on 02/26/2008, -3/+11Americans are more tolerant to dishonest advertising and schlock. look at their TV.
    • tattertech, on 02/26/2008, -0/+8Well to be fair, Facebook is rampant here, just in different demographics. The reality is that a lot of people have profiles on both, we just happen to have a market large enough to support both services readily.
      • KingGorilla, on 02/26/2008, -0/+6well then the US should be a color between purple and green. i like to call it gurple
        • widdershins, on 02/26/2008, -0/+4I've heard Octiron, the eighth colour, is a greenish purple.
      • ArchiTech, on 02/26/2008, -0/+1That is so Barney
    • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 02/26/2008, -1/+5Why does what social network YOU use matter when you want to look at the myspace page of some indy band?
    • smacksaw, on 02/26/2008, -1/+14I read an article that the less educated you are, the more likely you are to use MySpace, while people with a good education are more likely to use Facebook.

      Canadians, with their superior education system...hahahaha...j/k

      Actually, it's because of Facebook starting off as a university requirement for membership.
    • rurounikengyrl, on 02/26/2008, -0/+3i just don't like Myspace
  • deviouskoopa, on 02/26/2008, -2/+125I hate Myspace.
    • Curlz31, on 02/26/2008, -5/+7It's owned by the criminal, Rupert Murdoch. I find it ironic that people go on about how much they hate fox news and then they hop onto their myspace account for 10 hours and give Rupert Murdoch advertising dollars.
    • Romanito, on 02/26/2008, -0/+4What a coincidence, I'm french and I hate Skyblog.
  • hoveman, on 02/26/2008, -2/+21Friendster? Really. Wow

    /my space still sucks
  • DarthDaddy, on 02/26/2008, -14/+5I recently removed myself from Facebook, well the best I could, and as a Canadian I am actually embarrassed to see how dominating Facebook is in our country. This tells me that Canadians are really unaware of all the privacy & security issues online, and we do not know how dangerous it can be on the internets.
    • NeoSporin, on 02/26/2008, -0/+4I wouldn't mind a predator or two...
    • ninsei, on 02/26/2008, -0/+4Are you really silly enough to post ANYTHING important on Facebook or any other page for that matter? You can "breach" the security on my Facebook page anytime you like since there is NOTHING that matters on it or is incriminating in any way.
  • truspect0r, on 02/26/2008, -25/+22No wonder bush got elected TWICE.
  • carpespasm, on 02/26/2008, -1/+8Russia is still heavily using LiverJournal? Hmm....
    • kaban, on 02/26/2008, -0/+2Actually they use vkontakte.ru and odnoklassniki.ru waaaay more.
    • tattertech, on 02/26/2008, -0/+6LiveJournal was recently bought by someone living in Russia.
    • iLEZ, on 02/26/2008, -0/+4LiverJournal, Facebook, MySpleen, what's the difference?
  • brandonhines, on 02/26/2008, -3/+29"I left Facebook because of privacy concerns" is not an excuse when you willingly put information about yourself on the internet. And of course the company logs and keeps databases of everything. It's 2008; and storage is cheap and DMCA threats are everywhere. I would expect every company to do it if for nothing more than to protect themselves. I expect Digg to eventually market ads based on stories I've Dugg up in the past.
    • dema, on 02/26/2008, -4/+3Use reply.
    • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 02/26/2008, -2/+8It is a riot when people complain about privacy and Facebook/Myspace and put their entire life up for the world to see by their own free will.
    • smacksaw, on 02/26/2008, -1/+3Be realistic. Your information is going to come out one way or another. Who do you want to control it? You, or someone else? I'm not advertising my personal info, but I'm not hiding it, either. However, if I Google myself I see lots of hits that are me. I am establishing my identity before someone else does it for me.

      No matter what, we're going to lose our privacy. The question is, do you bury your head in the sand and let someone else define who you are or do you make the best of it and define yourself. Anyone can say anything about you they want. So why not get yourself established?

      That's not an excuse. That's ownership.
    • halcyon626, on 02/26/2008, -1/+2One of my college classes REQUIRED us to use Facebook... soon it won't be a feasible option NOT to have your information out there. That being said, I left my Facebook page private and divulged the minimal amount of information.
  • tnatharik, on 02/26/2008, -5/+3Its entreating to know that countries and continents stick to a specific social network. Its like some political stand.
    • chrisaug18, on 02/26/2008, -0/+4No, it's because people want to be on the same social network site as their friends...if I got LiveJournal in Canada no one I know would have it. But, on facebook everyone I know has it
  • chaos7, on 02/26/2008, -10/+5myspace was the first BIG social site and america/australia were the first countries to get into online social sites. that's why america/australia are such big myspace users.
    • cal0001, on 02/26/2008, -1/+2There were other BIG social sites they just went that big in America / australia. I have to say even tho i use them i really don't get what the point of these sites are. Maybe it's just to keep people from making their own crappy homepage. Or because they don't know about other easy was to host photos and connect with friends online. Im not saying they are bad but i really don't get social networks. Maybe im just a geek but my friends and i wrote our own closed site with all the collaboration and networking / posting random stuff we wanted. And the best part is any time we want something else added we just write it. That's not going to work for everybody, i guess it helps if your friends are electrical engineers and physicists.
  • magicaltrevor, on 02/26/2008, -8/+47To see Facebook (rather than Myspace) as the number 1 choice in the UK makes me proud to be British.
    • xxl3w, on 02/26/2008, -2/+17Let's all bow to your eliteness. You're way superior to everyone.
    • sakuraz, on 02/26/2008, -2/+8Lesser evil, nevertheless, is still evil.
    • karolisonline, on 02/26/2008, -2/+5once empire now is happy of using social network run by ex colony intelligence..
    • nonsequitur666, on 02/26/2008, -2/+0well, being british i guess you need to be proud of *something... brits don't have very much to be proud of...
      • waydee, on 02/27/2008, -0/+2Yeah, the industrialised world just doesn't cut it any more does it.
    • ArchiTech, on 02/26/2008, -0/+1Pride wastes time that could be spent digging up new articles... that and time that could be used developing Warp travel... and holosuites.
    • ChromaVita, on 02/26/2008, -2/+3Facebook is just like Britan. If it weren't for the security concerns, it'd be great.
      • funkywood, on 02/26/2008, -0/+3I think you meant privacy but I get ya.
    • rurounikengyrl, on 02/26/2008, -0/+1Can you explain what the hell Bebo is then? My UK friends think it's superior to Myspace.
      • waydee, on 02/27/2008, -0/+1Its for the people who didn't go to uni and get exposed to facebook.

        And idiots.
    • funkywood, on 02/26/2008, -0/+1FaceParty used to be the big British site before Facebook grew out of the college. That was simplicity. I'd be more proud if they were still number 1.
  • HenvY, on 02/26/2008, -0/+18Go on windows live spaces, keep capturing that Latin American market.
    • ninsei, on 02/26/2008, -0/+2I was thinking the same thing, good map for people who use social networks to date.
    • simplechris, on 02/26/2008, -0/+1is it really? crap, i never thought it would catch on. anywhere. saying that maybe they use MSN / Windows Live Messenger so it integrates seamlessly. or all use Hotmail or something.
  • drgmdp, on 02/26/2008, -0/+10note for non-southamericans: only brazilians use orkut. but there're a lot of them.
  • nascarnate326, on 02/26/2008, -11/+1***** the RIAA!
  • Niubai, on 02/26/2008, -0/+12Orkut is probably responsible for half (or more) of Brazil's internet traffic. If google drops orkut, terrible things would happen around here.
  • fxu1989, on 02/26/2008, -0/+16Orkut XD

    All my Brazilian friends here in the US have Orkut ... I ask them if they have myspace or facebook ? .. and they have a wtf face.
    • dema, on 02/26/2008, -1/+3I had completely forgotten about Orkut. All I remember is that is was painfully slow like 90% of the time. Now it looks exactly like Facebook, lol.
  • daxsymbiont, on 02/26/2008, -9/+3all the posh british run to say how superior they are for their choice.

    get lost.
  • cabdirazzaq, on 02/26/2008, -2/+20Buried as inaccurate. Sweden has almost 1 million Facebook users (with a pop. of 9 million), yet it's completely white?
    • Jerky1312, on 02/26/2008, -0/+3The reason it is white is probably because they didn't think they had accurate enough information on that country, so they left it blank. It's really inaccurate, just lacking data. For example, Turkey is also left blank, yet there is a 1.7 million population on the Turkey network on Facebook.
    • Le3f, on 02/29/2008, -0/+2Also note Japan... white? Umm, mixi is 100% Japanese; how else would it make the list if it were not for Japan?
    • robbiemuffin, on 02/29/2008, -0/+1It's inaccurate... at least they must be measuring accounts rather than users.

      Just look at the North American sector (which is about 20 island nations, the USA, Canada, and Mexico). Wikipedia has a nice chart here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_population where, if you add the US, CA, and MX numbers you get nearly 250m ... if you figure that the Caribbean's 80 million people can't have better internet connectivity than the USA, the total still doesn't go much past 300m. But using only the myspace and facebook columns for N America in the chart, you have to figure we have an additional 100m internet users. There are 500m people in all of North America. The 400m total means that 4 of every 5 people in north america have a myspace or a facebook account.
  • eightfivezero, on 02/26/2008, -1/+3Didn't know about Russians using Livejournal that much.
    • JanYpe, on 02/26/2008, -1/+4That's because in Russia journal lives..oh forget it.
      • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 02/26/2008, -2/+1Go ahread you can say it...

        In Soviet Russia, Journal Lives You!
        • synyster, on 02/26/2008, -0/+2when will you shut the ***** up about that stupid joke, is not funny anymore.
    • DeadElephant, on 02/26/2008, -0/+1Always playing catch up, those Russians.
    • MissCellania, on 02/26/2008, -0/+2A Russian company bought LiveJournal last fall, but I was still surprised at the saturation, so I checked it out. Turns out that the Russian company had been operating LiveJournal for SixApart for a few years already.
    • smacksaw, on 02/26/2008, -1/+4Wow...all of these Russia/LJ things. You're all missing out. The Russians post the craziest *****. LJ was /b/ before /b/ was /b/!

      Those Rooskies...they have a MESSED UP sense of humour. The picture posts they blog about...I guess after so many years of Communist oppression, you'd better develop a great sense of humour.
  • Theunluckydip, on 02/26/2008, -6/+1From personal experience i'd have to say the UK was more myspace.

    That said, i have no figures to prove it :P
    • Supernova36, on 02/26/2008, -1/+1I disagree, some people have myspace, but far more have Facebook.
      • simplechris, on 02/26/2008, -0/+2Sadly, Years ago i had myspace until i realised that it was evil and *****. Facebook is better because it means most people only use it to talk to people that they already know and don't get obsessed with it, like alot of people do on myspace.

        then when i moved to the west everyone i met when i went out was like "great meeting you mate, whats your bebo?" and they were surprised when i didn't have one.

        So i think it varies alot by region in the UK - but FB is the most popular imo.
  • tehmewse, on 02/26/2008, -2/+54Myspace hurts my eyes. People make their profiles look like a geocities page in the late 90's. Facebook ftw
    • jasalo, on 02/26/2008, -0/+1Very true....looks terrible
    • sKiLLa182, on 02/26/2008, -0/+2That's exactly the description I've always thought of but could never put it into words. Geocities webpage of the late 90's it is.
    • rurounikengyrl, on 02/26/2008, -0/+3You don't like the flashy words and the unnecessary fonts? Me too.
  • bmson, on 02/26/2008, -0/+6There is a freaking box over Iceland.
    But Scandinavia is the same...
  • alexandrend, on 02/26/2008, -2/+4Just a quick note on why Argentina is gray. At any moment in time an Argentinian has, at most, one friend. So, they don't need a social network utility to keep in touch, a mirror is enough.
    • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 02/26/2008, -0/+1Well, except that 15 year old Argentinian girl with 7 kids. She's kinda popular.
  • starbelfire, on 02/26/2008, -2/+5I never liked myspace for some reason. I love facebook, maybe I should move to Canada
  • VirusUK, on 02/26/2008, -4/+9they all suck, and they can all go to hell. (especially russia)
  • edlowe0, on 02/26/2008, -3/+9The words are all jibberish. Website must be messed up.

    /sarcasm
    • nonsequitur666, on 02/26/2008, -0/+1je maintiens que le chaos est le futur et au delà de lui suis liberté. la confusion est prochaine, et prochaine ensuite qui est la vérité que vous devez cultiver de ce que vous devez avoir besoin.
  • antriver, on 02/26/2008, -2/+5UK is obviously bebo and not facebook. Bebo is the chav's site of choice
  • jacekpoplawski, on 02/26/2008, -3/+4Do you remember days when Orkut was in English?
  • south409, on 02/26/2008, -4/+3vous parlez anglais?
  • schizogony, on 02/26/2008, -3/+6I just... go out.
  • freshyill, on 02/26/2008, -3/+3I'd love to see this again in a year, too see how much more MySpace declines and Facebook takes its place. MySpace is really sucking these days. It used to have the advantage of allowing anybody to join, but as soon as Facebook opened up, it became obvious to most people (among my friends, anyway), that Facebook was the superior service, and most of them rarely do anything on MySpace.

    Also, Facebook has Scrabulous.
    • nonsequitur666, on 02/26/2008, -1/+0facebook is far too bland to ever become big. its kinda like eggs without tabasco sauce... boring is as boring does, sir!
  • magnus3994, on 02/26/2008, -1/+1myspace is
    EVIL
  • Excedium, on 02/26/2008, -6/+1why use websites when you have a phone
  • carterx, on 02/26/2008, -7/+1In English please
  • wild, on 02/26/2008, -0/+17Ok, I officially live under a rock. I have never heard of Bebo until now.
    • synyster, on 02/26/2008, -0/+10because it sucks.
    • simplechris, on 02/26/2008, -0/+3well you havn't missed much. i am surprised though! for me, i never realized Orkut was so big!
  • ubitendo, on 02/26/2008, -0/+7If we're lucky one day there won't be such a thing as "social networking" because people will have to talk to each other face-to-face. Until then -- anonymously talking to each other via the Internetz is a fun game.
    • synyster, on 02/26/2008, -0/+2face-to-face you mean video calls on skype, social networking is great if you are stalker :)
      • karolisonline, on 02/26/2008, -0/+3no dummy, face-to-face is when You go to the pub to be with people You know names not their nicks and when You get laid in the end of the day with a real woman and not some floppy drive called lilly1984.
  • parisxv, on 02/26/2008, -3/+10Au moins on sait que Le Monde résiste au Reddit+Digg effect...
  • wegi, on 02/26/2008, -0/+32What does Myspace mean to you`?

    EVERYTHING BICTH; GO DIE!
    • ileftfark, on 02/26/2008, -0/+3Funniest video I've seen in the last 1.73 days.
    • almj, on 02/27/2008, -0/+1Dude, if you're gonna caps lock it, you've got to spell it right... That being said, that was truly a great video.
  • prleet, on 02/26/2008, -3/+0Social? Say again? More like hermit crabs living in virtual world....

    Wow, if thats your definition of social, then I am anti-social
    • simplechris, on 02/26/2008, -0/+3yeah, that was my opinion too, but when i thought about it, you are spending your time on Digg, an internet based content-sharing community (even this site has buddy features too)

      Why arent you out with mates?! - Jokes, but you get what i'm saying?
  • synyster, on 02/26/2008, -1/+2who use myspace? is fully of ***** that really annoy you(not to mention most of people on myspace don't have taste of styling - their customize page look like *****).
  • tauntz, on 02/26/2008, -1/+3Add Estonia to Orkut users :| (and a few % use Facebook)
    If only there was Rate.ee - about 20% of the total population use it (thats >50% of teenagers I guess) :P
  • momsshizzle, on 02/26/2008, -6/+1I'm in the USA and hi5 owns all of them. I can't stand myspace and facebook.

    http://www.hi5.com/friend/profile/displaySameProfi ...
  • jc7012, on 02/26/2008, -1/+5reminds me of...

    http://xkcd.com/256/
    • Vuredel, on 02/26/2008, -0/+2Seems like a perfect opportunity lost to show the Pirate Bay.
    • SSCrow, on 02/26/2008, -1/+1No Pandora?
      But they have Last.fm
      bah. Cool map otherwise.
  • zvezdochka, on 02/26/2008, -1/+2All my friends in Thailand use hi5. I have no idea how it got popular. Nobody was using it a few years ago.
    • JoeVet, on 02/27/2008, -0/+1I'll be moving to Thailand next year. I may have to look into Hi5.
  • robbiemuffin, on 02/26/2008, -4/+1It's inaccurate... at least they must be measuring accounts rather than users.

    Just look at the North American sector (which is about 20 island nations, the USA, Canada, and Mexico). Wikipedia has a nice chart here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_population where, if you add the US, CA, and MX numbers you get nearly 250m ... if you figure that the Caribbean's 80 million people can't have better internet connectivity than the USA, the total still doesn't go much past 300m. But using only the myspace and facebook columns for N America in the chart, you have to figure we have an additional 100m internet users. There are 500m people in all of North America. The 400m total means that 4 of every 5 people in north america have a myspace or a facebook account.
  • TBBucs, on 02/26/2008, -0/+5Sure, put a graph right over Greenland...
  • simplechris, on 02/26/2008, -2/+1VIRB is really the best site (in terms of features, reconfigurability, web-standards!) but it will never be overly popular because of longer established networks.

    ***** myspace.
  • DeathUnlimited, on 02/26/2008, -5/+2I'm from the UK, Half of my friends use Myspace & the other use Facebook.
    I tried to create a Facebook account, within 5 minutes I was flooded with ***** like *pokes* and invites to use ***** apps. It's also terrible trying to personalize it. IMO Myspace is much better, if you just use the spam filters right.

    but some people do take it far too seriously
    social networks ftl
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