Social Media as Social Mess

Couple of very interesting articles here and here, discussing the self-reverance of social media. As a Luddite who largely fails to see the allure of social media, I found these articles very interesting.



2 thoughts on “Social Media as Social Mess”

  • Marc located the following excerpt from a longer paper on this site:
    We found that social networks have clusters of happy and unhappy people within them that reach out to three degrees of separation. A person’s happiness is related to the happiness of their friends, their friends’ friends, and their friends’ friends’ friends—that is, to people well beyond their social horizon. We found that happy people tend to be located in the center of their social networks and to be located in large clusters of other happy people. And we found that each additional happy friend increases a person’s probability of being happy by about 9%.

  • Marc located the following excerpt from a longer paper on this site:
    We found that social networks have clusters of happy and unhappy people within them that reach out to three degrees of separation. A person’s happiness is related to the happiness of their friends, their friends’ friends, and their friends’ friends’ friends—that is, to people well beyond their social horizon. We found that happy people tend to be located in the center of their social networks and to be located in large clusters of other happy people. And we found that each additional happy friend increases a person’s probability of being happy by about 9%.

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