Connected
I’ve been reading a book recently: “Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives”. The authors are Christakis, N.A. and Fowler, J. H.
This book explain how behaviors, fashions, epidemics, habits, etc. spread through social networks, passing from person to person, friend to friend, spouse to spouse, neighbor to neighbor…; How people who you don’t know, distanced up to three degrees of separation from you in a social network can influence your life, your health, your wealth… and you can influence theirs.
When the authors say people up to three degrees of separation, they mean friends’ friends' friends.
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Connected
I’ve been reading a book recently: “Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives”. The authors are Christakis, N.A. and Fowler, J. H.
This book explains how behaviors, fashions, epidemics, habits, etc., spread through social networks, passing from person to person, friend to friend, spouse to spouse, and neighbor to neighbor. How people who you don’t know, distanced up to three degrees of separation from you in a social network can influence your life, your health, your wealth, etc., and how you can influence theirs.
When the authors say people up to three degrees of separation, they mean a person's friends' friends.
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Since I know some people of Galician origin, may be we are less than three degrees from each other!
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Do you think we could have three degrees of separation? Nowadays most people connected to some kind of social networks are only separate by three degrees, but not me. How long could be the social line from Galicia to Catalunya? It may be surprising.
It's interesting the book you mention.
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Yes, I agree with that. I think that all the new connections that we do, although they are sporadic chats with somebody in the other side on the world, may influence our life in some sense. The network in what we are embedded is always changing around us!
Thanks for your comment!
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I haven't read the book, but obviously the subjects mentioned should be of interest to people who visit the italki site.
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