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What is the compared-to "real social network". Facebook or other online networks? Or derived from studying meatspace communities? I imagine the numbers are very
by laohu 13y ago
What is the compared-to "real social network". Facebook or other online networks? Or derived from studying meatspace communities? I imagine the numbers are very different between the two.
- malahay 13y agoGood question :) I was referring mainly to the small world phenomenon [1], there are also some online networks that have ~6 avg path length like Microsoft Messenger [2]. We were just curious how a fictional network would look like. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_experiment [2] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/horvitz/leskovec_horvitz_www2008.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/horvitz/leskov...