Six Degrees of Separation
Discussions focus on the concept of six degrees of separation in social networks like LinkedIn and Facebook, exploring how platforms infer connections via social graphs, friends of friends, and network effects.
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What % of people on LinkedIn are NOT within 3 degrees of separation from you?
I'm guessing how friends/followers are connected. Whole 6 degrees of separation idea
May be due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation
How do they tie this to your "social graph"?
You know that saying "everyone knows everybody over 6 other people", maybe something about that. Or: who of your friend's friend's friend's has the same hobby / whatever.
Usually via graph, a "six degrees of separation" sort of thing, you don't have to directly contact each other, but it's enough to contact some of the same people to assume a connection. Also similar use patterns or geo locations (ip location or profile input indicating physical proximity) can be taken into account. I don't have intimate knowledge of their algorithms so I don't know about any other factors they might use.I find it quite amusing that you're &q
More likely you are just seeing a fairly common network effect, where once you are in it is easy to see many connections.So, if there are some fairly good quantitative treatments of this, I'd be interested. I suspect it isn't too shocking. Probably more than the parent poster and friends think. Probably less than you do. :)
Another possibility is that your social graph might have more overlap than you realize, even if it's not very much, it could be enough to make them the 'nearest' to you in some way. At least some of the graph data can come from sources invisible to you (i.e. people looking at other people's Facebook connections).
How do they know whose friends are friends with whoever else?
Is hiding my friends less creepy than trawling through my friends, friends' friends, friends' friends' friends, and so on?