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A fun discovery: The Scandinavian Northern European obsession with Facebook is most extreme in the west, and diminishes the further east you live.

Islands at the top

According to Facebook statistics from Socialbakers.com, Iceland has the highest Facebook penetration of the population in Northern Europe – in fact, with two thirds of the population facebooking, Iceland is the third most Facebook-saturated country in the world!

Facebook penetration gets less intense the further east you get in Scandinavia (international penetration ranking in parentheses):

• 68 % in Iceland (3. place)
• 60% in Faroe Islands (5. place)
• 54% in Norway (8. place)
• 50% in Denmark (15. place)
• 49% in Sweden (29. place)
• 39% in Finland (43. place)

Facebook penetration in the Nordic countries, according to Socialbakers.com data, September 2011