Social Networking Internationally

Using site stat company Alexa and Google Trends for Websites traffic data, Vincenzo Cosenza put this map together showing the most popular social networking sites by country.


Looks like Myspace fell off the map. 


Hat tip to The High Definite

More From the Most Transparent White House Ever

First we had the email scandal; the White House collecting that info, having people report "fishy" folk, and the whole White House spamming thing. Now we have the White House collecting social site info...MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc of American citizens. Without, by the way, letting people know that they've been pinged by the White House.

The White House says Presidential Records Act requires them to do this. Say what? It's done by a private contractor. Who do they report to? Some other loony czar we haven't heard of yet? The White House has not announced who the contractor is or how much it costs, or how long this has been going on.

A Step Too Far?

If you're applying for a job for the city of Bozeman, Montana, be prepared to provide them with all your log-ins and passwords to all your websites, Facebook, Myspace, and all social networking sites, Google, Yahoo, YouTube, chat rooms, forums, etc. You have to sign a waiver for the city to log onto all your sites. Giving up your Google and Yahoo sites means they'll have access to your email too.

Bozeman officials say they've been doing this for years. They say it's necessary to ensure the integrity of city employees working with taxpayer dollars, children in recreational programs, employees that need to enter people's homes, etc.

The city (elected) officials themselves are exempt from this.

I'm certainly glad elected officials (and their employees that do the checking) have so much integrity and are so honest they would never ever abuse or take advantage of or exploit this information for personal, economic or political gain.