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Facebook continues to extend its global social-networking hegemony, having established itself as the most-used such service in the vast majority of countries surveyed in a recent study.

"Facebook with 1 billion active users has established its leadership position in 127 out of 137 countries analyzed," blogged Italian researcher Vincenzo Cosenza when releasing his most recent World Map of Social Networks.

The Reg rushes to note that Cosenza's most-recent report uses traffic data from Alexa, perhaps not the most unflinchingly accurate global traffic monitor, but one which all things considered does report relatively accurate comparative data, site-to-site.

Previous to his most recent WMoSN, Cosenza used data from Google Trends for Websites, but that source was shut down in September of last year.

In any case, Cosenza's latest map shows that Facebook has vaquished almost all competition, and is now slurping up more social-networking traffic than all but a few sites in all but a few countries.

In Russia, (V Kontakte, or In Touch) is the most popular social-networking site, with its main competitor (Odnoklassniki, or Classmates) now falling behind, holding onto most-popular status in just a western sliver of the former Soviet Union.

The map's Facebook blue, the competitors are few (click to enlarge credit: Vincenzo Cosenza vincos.it

The two other holdouts to total Facebook hegemony are countries that carefully control their citizens' interent access: China, where QQ (QZone) remains number one, and Iran, where social-networkers have to make do with (Cloob, or Club).

Perhaps most interesting in Cosenza's latest study is how many fewer countries now have most-active sites other than Facebook when compared with the same study done in December 2009, and how many social-networking sites have slipped from countries' number-one positions.

Even Brazil, where the relatively freewheeling, Google-owned Orkut social-networking site as recently as June 2011, according to Cosenza, has now fallen behind Facebook. Orkut's other outpost, India, slipped into Facebook's camp between June and December 2009.

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Google Street Views & Privacy

Google Street Views, a new feature of Google Maps that offers photos of various cities (and citizens) around the country, is raising new concerns about privacy. Edward Jurkevics, Chesapeake Analytics; John Gapper, FT chief business commentator; and CNBC's Erin Burnett take on the topic

Savvy consumers learn fast and have realized limiting access to their data means they have to stay vigilant on privacy settings.

Facebook and Google's social networking arm, Google Plus, have group functions that allow users to selectively share information, instead of exposing data to "the random world", as Polonetsky euphemistically called social network posts. (Read more: Randi Zuckerberg Also Confused About Facebook Privacy.)

In some cases, web surfers are going a step further and downloading additional software and browsers specifically to block advertiser access to their personal data. AdBlock Plus, which is free touts about 42 million active users, is one example.

Unless users are willing to jump through such hoops, "there isn't much privacy from marketers when your sharing your information online," Polonetsky said. "Users should understand that there's not much online that is free, unless they take extraordinary steps."

In the end, the onus is on users to know where and how their data is disseminated.

"I'm often surprised that people are surprised" by user data policies, said Brad McGee, co-founder of iCrowd, a social network for equity crowdfunding. If you post information, always have a clear idea of how the site or company intends to use your data, he said.

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