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I hear the term facebook friend and assume its not an irl friend.
Sure, if I talked about my "facebook friend" then it would be referring to someone I only know on facebook, but that doesn't mean it's the only type of friendship on facebook. It would be like talking about a "work friend" or a "school friend", it refers to how you met. The image doesn't refer to "facebook friends", it refers to men-women relationships on facebook.
Oh then im pretty sure I am connected to non relation females even though I don't really use it.
It's about the ratio. If it were random, you'd expect men to be friends with roughly equal numbers of male and female friends (it's not clear how NBs fit in).
In reality, men are more likely to be friends with men and women are more likely to be friends with women. This is what the image is showing. Blue areas it's more equal, red areas people are almost exclusively only friends with the same sex.
The methodology didn't only look at who people were friends with, but also looked at how friendly they were (using some facebook proprietary model). So they basically ranked people by how close their friendship was, and took the top 200 friends.
So if you have 500 male friends and 500 female friends, but you only ever chat with your male friends and like your male friends posts, then it would likely rank you as having mostly male friends.
I linked some details of the study in another comment.