Facebook intern visualizes friendships, draws world map

Re:Facebook intern visualizes friendships, draws world map by btilly on Monday December 13, 2010 @11:58PM (#2003177)

I've been in that area. I think it is real.

It is a lot easier to move around and work on one side of the border or the other, which leads to people naturally not meeting people on the other side.

In the east there are so many more people and there is so much cross border traffic due to trade (particularly from the auto industry) that a lot more cross border connections exist.

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Re:Facebook intern visualizes friendships, draws world map by foenix on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @05:57AM (#2003805)

I've been to the Eastern part of the border: Stanstead, Quebec/Vermont. Over there, some of the buildings are right on the border. One of the guys I worked with lived in apartments which had their parking lot technically in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanstead,_Quebec#Geography

Check out the library:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Free_Library_and_Opera_...

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,948520,00.html

As for the west coast, let's not forget about the geographical anomaly known as "Point Roberts":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Roberts#Geography

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