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tl;dr people with many friends are overrepresented in social networks (because many people have them as friends) so people who are friends with you have more f
by eloisant 10y ago
tl;dr
people with many friends are overrepresented in social networks (because many people have them as friends) so people who are friends with you have more friends than the average.
In other words, everyone is friend with Tom from MySpace so you have a hugely popular friend, but you don't know any loner with no friend (because they're not your friend).
- mkagenius 10y agoor its highly probable that most of your(average person) friends are your friend because they easily accept anyone's friend request and hence have lots of friends
- dsacco 10y agoIn other words, the friendship paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox