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The Social Networking Geogrpahical Map finds you a home

If I were to live in the world of social communities, I would reside on the border of Last.fm and Flickr, with a summer home in WoW. This geographical depiction of the most popular of social networks is a fun and playful ode to Web 2.0. The “Map of Online Communities and Related Points of Interest”, as it is titled, would be awesome if it were to be sold in a poster size. I’d rock it right next to my... Continue reading

The ‘Map’ of ‘Jefferson Highschool’: Charting teenage sexual patterns with a visual diagram

We’ve never stopped and thought about stuff like this. With social networking running rapid online, what other ways can we show social networks? After analyzing data from one high school, scientists have come up with this chart. Showing how sluts and pimps connect those whom otherwise wouldn’t be connected. As you can see, the largest area of the chart is most likely the result of the ‘popular’ clique in school, while the smallest one, between only two people, is most... Continue reading