Inside Facebook's Justin Smith used Google's Insights for Search tool to map Facebook's spread across the United States and the world. We converted a few of his slides into a time-lapse video, above, revealing how Facebook ping-ponged between the coasts before finally filling in most of the country's middle, except for a few farm states where teenagers are probably still asking "a/s/l" in AOL chatrooms or something.

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