Monthly Archives: January 2011

Your friends have more friends than you

January 21, 2011

On average, your friends have more friends than you do. This counter intuitive but generally true claim is known as the “friendship paradox”. I suggest two approaches to get your head wrapped around this one. You can work out some real cases if you have access to some social data or other graph data....

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Social Capacity: How many Facebook friends do you have?

January 5, 2011
Social Capacity: How many Facebook friends do you have?

While having a brew recently I noticed a man conversing. His voice stood out for me and I couldn’t figure out why so I invited him and his friend to our table. Micheal said he is a tennis instructor. I explained that I once took tennis lessons about 15 years ago and what a...

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