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I don't think that's true. The MBA class at Colombia is 700 people. Every year. That's not a social network. It's a number of social networks. It's inevitable
by tomp 11y ago
I don't think that's true. The MBA class at Colombia is 700 people. Every year.
That's not a social network. It's a number of social networks. It's inevitable that you'll only connect with a smaller number of classmates, and AFAIK classes are even organized with that in mind (the whole generation is split into smaller groups that then have classes together).
- nostrademons 11y agoThey're pretty closely intertwined, though, in the sense that you can probably find people in your network who share a person or network in common with someone you're trying to reach. At least that was how it was at my small, elite liberal arts college of 400 people/year. I didn't know everyone in my class, but if someone went there at the same time as me, it's almost guaranteed that there is at least one person there we knew in common. The whole point of networking is so you don't have to cold-approach someone and there'll be someone or something you have in common. The whole point of social networking tools (LinkedIn, Facebook) is so you know who that person is.
- fiatmoney 11y agoSure, and the formation of interlinked sub-networks is an artifact of the overall size - the goal isn't that you'll be BFFs with everyone on campus, but that you'll be able to find enough socially & professionally compatible classmates that you can effectively collude, but and not so many that the value of the collusion is spread out over unacceptably many people, or that it becomes impossible to actually find that guy you heard of whose uncle is a BFD at the Malaysian fed or whatever.