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Photo: You Are Nothing But A Little Dot Now
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Jen Carlson
Published Jul 11, 2011
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via Eric Fischer
Did you just Tweet? Or upload a photo to Flickr? Well then you are most likely one of these dots. The red are locations of Flickr pictures, and the blue are locations of Twitter tweets—and the white dots? They're both. Eric Fischer's image goes off of where people posted geotagged photos and Tweets from—and Manhattan, you're looking a little obsessed with all things online.
Also confirmed: no one really uses Flickr in Jakarta.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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