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I have implemented and used a similar thing for many years. I think a very great virtue of such a system is that you can run a cronjob pretty easily to email yo
by curuinor 11y ago
I have implemented and used a similar thing for many years. I think a very great virtue of such a system is that you can run a cronjob pretty easily to email you reminders to contact any friends you haven't poked at much.
- curuinor 11y agoAnd I have also thought about the process of making friends for many years. Consider that the complex network which is considered the ego network (a la the sociologists) is really considered a complex network, just like the overall global social network: radical inequality in the degree structure, clustering and triangle formation, radical inequality in eigenvalues of adjacency matrix, critical percolation to a giant component, durability to random insult but not attack, synchronizability. Therefore, it will seem in low-friendship times that a radical prioritization is needed and that the durability to random insult should be used to deal with deep friends only. However, the global structure of the ego net must be maintained also by weak friendships, and weak relations are of the utmost importance in doing anything (see Granovetter's work). As for the operation of getting the friends, fifteen or twenty readings of K. Johnstone's Impro should suffice.
- jacobevelyn 11y ago100% agree. If you have any tips on features/interfaces that pair particularly well with cron, I'd love to hear about them! I'd also be interested in hearing more about how your system works if you're willing to share!