And 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 soc

And 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.