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Facebook announces the opening of the first observatory in his name in Italy, while Italian Vincenzo Cosenza creates a map that shows the most popular social networking worldwide segmenting the leading social network in each country, based on data collected by Google Trends.

The first map is dated June 2009 but recently updated in December, allowing us to see trends and discern trends worldwide.

Facebook, one might expect, grows and continues to grow with no one to put to the task, with its 350 million users worldwide. He has conquered new territories, scratching and users share their competitors and be a leader in more than one hundred countries.

Brazil remains encambio Orkut territory but India went over to Facebook. Hi5 also loses its leadership in countries like Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Dominican Republic and El Salvador for Facebook, but still staying in Australia, Portugal, Romania, Thailand and Mongolia.

In contrast, in Russia, V Kontakte, the Russian clone of Facebook, still number one. In fact it is the third most trafficked site in Russia and Belarus, as is number two in other countries like Ukraine or Kazakhstan 4.

In Russia, Facebook has the number 29 if you look at Alexa (website devoted to monitoring the traffic of other sites). Facebook also won other network users as Odnoklassniki, Maktoob, Cyworld, Skyrock Lidé or in several countries.

Frindster only leads in the Philippines, Hyves in the Netherlands, Orkut in Brazil and Estonia ... and Spain. Comparing the map in June 2009 compared to December, we realize the unstoppable progress of Facebook worldwide.