.@zeynep yes @duncanjwatts found 6 degrees in email experiment a few years ago. Social reality has not changed because of Facebook
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@NAChristakis I keep in touch with friends I'd absolutely would not have without FB. This is like saying phones don't change connectivity.2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
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@zeynep fundamental reality of our social connections has not changed. Eg phones did not make us polygamous. Seehttp://humannaturelab.net/research/research-areas/#research1 …3 replies 2 retweets 7 likes -
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@NAChristakis@zeynep Dunbar shows online networks do not change group size. FB doesn't alter cognitive constraints http://goo.gl/G5kshH1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
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@AmarDhand@NAChristakis Cognitive constraints on feelings of being close are a different question. Again, "6" wasn't the number in 1643.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@AmarDhand@NAChristakis Unless the argument is that "6" represents an immutable number since the Pleistocene, why can't it change? It can.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@AmarDhand@NAChristakis (Honestly, I don't believe "cognitive constraints" have one-on-one correspondence with group size in modern world.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@zeynep@NAChristakis Quite a lot of research shows online and offline networks have the same structures. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378873315000313 …1 reply 2 retweets 4 likes -
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@AmarDhand@NAChristakis People don't have different set of online and offline friends. It's a joint reality.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@AmarDhand@NAChristakis Connectivity—telephone, Facebook, railroads, etc—change where your nodes are. Obviously that changes.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@AmarDhand @NAChristakis But I repeat my question: if you think 6 is stable & immutable, since when? Modernity? Bronze Age? Since 1953?
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