Comments on: No degrees of separation? http://blog.paulwalk.net/2007/10/08/no-degrees-of-separation/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:49:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Faith http://blog.paulwalk.net/2007/10/08/no-degrees-of-separation/comment-page-1/#comment-1150 Faith Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:20:33 +0000 http://blog.paulwalk.net/?p=45#comment-1150 I'm new to this six degrees thing. MY question is what is the point of connection? Maybe I'm not understanding it correctly. So their are six people that essentially link you to a person and once linked you have then connected all the ties thus far to connect your self to every one, in a sense? If I'm understanding it correctly, then what? And how would one know that they have found the sixth person? Again I might not be understanding it correctly at all. I would like to find that facebook test thing though. I was invited to add a group about it and thought of the question, what if those in our connection don't have a facebook account. I don't understand the separation of zero part. If you're friends with the person then there is no connection? Maybe it's all related my misunderstanding of the theory in the first place. ?? If you could answer any thing I'd appreciate it. Though if not that is fine too because I may just confused things more. I’m new to this six degrees thing. MY question is what is the point of connection? Maybe I’m not understanding it correctly. So their are six people that essentially link you to a person and once linked you have then connected all the ties thus far to connect your self to every one, in a sense? If I’m understanding it correctly, then what? And how would one know that they have found the sixth person? Again I might not be understanding it correctly at all. I would like to find that facebook test thing though. I was invited to add a group about it and thought of the question, what if those in our connection don’t have a facebook account. I don’t understand the separation of zero part. If you’re friends with the person then there is no connection? Maybe it’s all related my misunderstanding of the theory in the first place. ?? If you could answer any thing I’d appreciate it. Though if not that is fine too because I may just confused things more.

]]> By: Vashti http://blog.paulwalk.net/2007/10/08/no-degrees-of-separation/comment-page-1/#comment-546 Vashti Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:19:13 +0000 http://blog.paulwalk.net/?p=45#comment-546 You would think it could make use of the knows someone through a friend connector (e.g. Vashti knows Keith Richards through Johnny Depp) to indicate at least another level of separation. Although it is all very subjective. In North Wales we rarely get more than one degree of separation anyway, it's too small a community! You would think it could make use of the knows someone through a friend connector (e.g. Vashti knows Keith Richards through Johnny Depp) to indicate at least another level of separation. Although it is all very subjective. In North Wales we rarely get more than one degree of separation anyway, it’s too small a community!

]]> By: paul http://blog.paulwalk.net/2007/10/08/no-degrees-of-separation/comment-page-1/#comment-549 paul Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:55:10 +0000 http://blog.paulwalk.net/?p=45#comment-549 Well, the Facebook tool does the second half of this - it will show the 'route' to a given person (actually, user). But it doesn't do the automatic matching thing, although I feel sure other FB tools will do this. Possibly/probably FB is being used as a dating/match-making tool? I wouldn't know..... ;-) Well, the Facebook tool does the second half of this - it will show the ‘route’ to a given person (actually, user). But it doesn’t do the automatic matching thing, although I feel sure other FB tools will do this. Possibly/probably FB is being used as a dating/match-making tool? I wouldn’t know….. ;-)

]]> By: Ross Gardler http://blog.paulwalk.net/2007/10/08/no-degrees-of-separation/comment-page-1/#comment-547 Ross Gardler Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:20:26 +0000 http://blog.paulwalk.net/?p=45#comment-547 <a href="http://www.linkedin.com" rel="nofollow">LinkedIn</a> has a slightly more realistic concept of "degrees of separation". Although, in reality, it can suffer from the same problem you identify here. The goal of LinkedIn is to enable you to find professional connections. With such connections it is not a "I want to be your friend" link. It is more of a "I think we may be able to help one another" connection. So, you find someone via linkedin (as a result of looking for someone with my skill set) you are immediately presented with the shortest path to be introduced to that person. I wonder if this tool you talk about can do the same thing in FaceBook. That is, can I ask it what my shortest path of connections from me to person XYZ is? LinkedIn has a slightly more realistic concept of “degrees of separation”. Although, in reality, it can suffer from the same problem you identify here.

The goal of LinkedIn is to enable you to find professional connections. With such connections it is not a “I want to be your friend” link. It is more of a “I think we may be able to help one another” connection. So, you find someone via linkedin (as a result of looking for someone with my skill set) you are immediately presented with the shortest path to be introduced to that person.

I wonder if this tool you talk about can do the same thing in FaceBook. That is, can I ask it what my shortest path of connections from me to person XYZ is?

]]> By: Modeling » No degrees of separation? http://blog.paulwalk.net/2007/10/08/no-degrees-of-separation/comment-page-1/#comment-548 Modeling » No degrees of separation? Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:38:19 +0000 http://blog.paulwalk.net/?p=45#comment-548 [...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptIn such a simple model, the degrees of separation between any two users are relatively easy to calculate. Although a user can be several degrees of separation removed from another, the barrier to them becoming directly connected is very … [...] [...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptIn such a simple model, the degrees of separation between any two users are relatively easy to calculate. Although a user can be several degrees of separation removed from another, the barrier to them becoming directly connected is very … [...]

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