Argentineans are most social, US ties at 29th
Plaxo, the "smart address book" company has been peeking into its 10m members' address books around the world, to come up with a list of which country's residents have fatter address books. The Plaxo "Connected Index" showed:
The survey, based on anonymous, aggregated data from over 10 million members, found that Argentina led the Index, with an average of 479 contacts per address book. The Argentinean average is nearly 100 contacts greater than second place Austria whose Plaxo members had an average of 384 colleagues, friends, family, or other contacts in their address book. The United States tied with the Dominican Republic for 29th place, with an average address book size of 293 contacts.
Given the recent scandal over AOL's release of search data, and the departure of AOL's CTO over this issue, I'm not sure Plaxo's release of such data is a good idea. Although there is nothing identifiable in the Plaxo information, it shows that Plaxo user address books are wide open for analysis by Plaxo staff.
