If everyone knows everyone in a community, it’s probably insular. Takes a loosely woven, sparse social graph with lots of weak links to absorb new people.
There’s such a thing as being socially overnetworked.
The smaller a community the easier it is for it to fail that way.
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But the real question is whether the overnetworked become the oversocialized.
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They don’t. But the unsociable leave, so the innately oversocial stay and get more concentrated.
That’s how you get scary small town.
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Or periodic waves of intense socialization pressure (e.g. inter-network conflict).


