Facebook continues its relentless assault on the world’s social networks

Italian blogger Vincenzo Cosenza has put together a map of the most popular social networks in world for a second time now. These statistics are based on the most recent traffic data as taken by Alexa & Google Trends for Websites.

Facebook is the obvious winner of English speaking countries and is continuing to advance on the rest. Many parts of Europe and South America are also under Facebook’s influence as well; and of the countries in Africa that have any statistics at all, they all point towards Facebook. The only continent that seems to be resisting the onslaught of North America’s network of choice is Asia. But that might not last for long as evidenced in India where previous top network Orkut has been overthrown where it usually has a strong following.

It seems Facebook’s biggest competitor is Russia’s Vkontakte.ru. Though, what looks like a competition could easily melt into an alliance. Vkontakte is mostly owned by Digital Sky Technologies which in turn also has a large stake in Facebook. So in the future, these two could become a the first superpower in the social-networking world.

The funny part, in my opinion, is that once popular MySpace is no where to be found on this map. Apparently, MySpace is only dominant on the island of Guam; but it is my guess that that won’t last much longer.

Read [TechCrunch]