*Friends of friends of friends:* _an experiment of six degrees
via Google+_
I've been doing an experiment, following interesting people and
placing them in an unique circle. What I found fasctinating is
that there seem to be clusters of people who follow the same
group, more or less, until you get into the fringes. It is at
the fringes that things get interesting.
Your _friends in common_ start to dwindle. Faces of people you
didn't befriend that kept popping up suddenly start vanishing.
Then you are finally left with the far flung fringes of the
circle, most of which only have a total of 5 or 10 people in
their circle, with one friend in common.
But then, suddenly, a *BREAKTHROUGH* - you find the _gatekeeper_
- the person who is not only friends with people in the circle
you were traversing, BUT who has a NEW circle for you to travel
down, with groups of different followers and more interesting
people you wouldn't have found otherwise.
In going through about 600 people in this one circle, I've
learned more about people connectivity, strong interaction, weak
interaction, how you have gatekeepers of circles, who introduce
one circle to another.
And in this, I have traveled through the labyrinth of *six
degrees of separation* - it is true that you are connected to
everyone on the planet by six other people - but those six other
people *must* be _gatekeepers_ for it to work.
And the gatekeepers were often the people you NEVER would have
expected. It's often the person who posts very little, or
nothing. Might not have much of their profile filled out - if
any. _But_ *they are connected*.
Those are the people you need to find. Share at will.
Kenneth Udut,
http://free.naplesplus.us - Naples, FL News, Jobs,
For Sale, Business Directory, Events, videos and Affordable
Trapping
[email protected] Sent July 28, 2011 on Google+
