Want to see how it looks when a social network takes over the world? A very cool map created by Italian blogger Vincenzo Cosenza will show you.

This is Cosenza’s second map of global social networking that he bases on the most recent traffic data (December 2009) from Alexa & Google Trends for Web sites.

Here are some of his conclusions from the data:

• Facebook continues its colonization of the world with more than 350 million users (when you look at the map, note that all the countries where Facebook is the social networking leader are in pale green)
• Since June, Facebook has conquered new territories from its competitors (in 100 out of 127 countries analyzed, it is the market leader)
• While Orkut used to be top of the heap in India, it has lost ground quickly to Facebook
• In the Western hemisphere, only Peru (dominated by Hi5) and Brazil (where Google’s social network is most popular) are resisting Facebook dominance
• Russians, ever isolationists, are using Vkontakte.ru, something of a Facebook copycat that’s owned by Digital Sky Technologies, which owns a large chunk of Facebook
• China’s dominated by QQ, and estimates are that the number of Web users in that country will reach a whopping 840 million by 2014, and
• MySpace, the granddaddy of all social networking, seems to have vanished from nearly every country on Earth, save Guam.

For this most recent map, Cosenza added Cuba, Qatar and Reunion. He deleted Iran because censorship there doesn’t permit what he believes to be accurate data.

Tags: Facebook, Hi5, map, QQ, social networking, Vincenzo Consenza