Ben Rochford
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Ben Rochford
- Somebody once said that a good science-fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
from ‘The Three-Body Problem’ Is Brilliant. ‘3 Body Problem’ Is Better. by Zach Kram
But the people we interact with on Twitter are likely to be strangers – yet the patterns we found in Twitter networks were indistinguishable from those of real-world face-toface networks, except that they only had the first three layers
from Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships by Robin Dunbar
does our online social world actually look anything like our offline, face-to-face world?
from Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships by Robin Dunbar
What these results tell us is that, even when we play games in a virtual environment with complete strangers who could be anywhere in the world, we impose a set of natural patterns on our interactions that reflect the kinds of social structures we use to manage our real-world face-to-face interactions.
from Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships by Robin Dunbar
