Western Union reveals United States as India's best friend in cyberspace!

The league table has been created using data from Western Union's Your World Facebook Application, which visualises each user's Facebook connections around the globe and gives them a score for how globally connected they are.

Your World has enjoyed more than 250,000 hits worldwide since its launch in July this year, as individual users compete in the Western Union® Network Challenge: a hunt for the world's most globally networked person on Facebook. On the 18th of October Western Union will announce the winner - and reveal an opportunity for them to use their global network as a force for good.

With so much aggregate data being generated by Your World, Western Union has been able to build a bird's eye view of how different countries connect to one another on Facebook. The data reveals India's top ten best friends in cyberspace: those countries where Facebook users in India have the most Facebook connections.

The results show how social media is shrinking the world we live in ' with some of the India's closest friends in cyberspace based thousands of miles away in the real world:

1. United States

3. United Arab Emirates

5. Canada

7. Saudi Arabia

9. Malaysia

He added: "On the 18th of October we will be announcing the winner of the Western Union Network Challenge - the Your World user who has the most global connections. We will be inviting him or her to partner with us to use their network as a force for good. So I would urge anyone who has not yet tried out the Application to give it a go."