Facebook Approaching World Dominance?

Posted on 6/1/2010 by Leadership Network in the Digital Blog

This map was from a post in 2008 - it showed what social networking sites dominated which countries at the time (April 2008).  It wasn't clear if there was one dominant social network.  Rather - each country had its own flavor of social network that fit their language and culture:

From this post, an updated map showed the landscape in June 2009.  Facebook became the most popular social network in almost all English-speaking countries:

 

Another update in Dec 2009 showed Facebook made even more strides, becoming the dominant social network in Latin-America, Europe, and Africa as well.  It even managed to displace Orkut in India (Orkut was hugely popular in India for the past few years):

 

Source for the 2 most recent maps

- Joe Suh