Everybody sing!

[kickaha]

So after a party last night where once again ginkgo and I ran into friends that we had *NO IDEA* knew the hostess, we decided tonight to make a chart.

In the grand tradition of the UWBB Boink Chart, we used Omnigroup's OmniGraffle. We added folks we know, how everyone met each other, current relationships, who *knows* who (a graph we elided ourselves from, since by default we know everyone on the chart), etc. It certainly doesn't have everybody we know on it, but it's the 50 people we think were most central to friends groups we know, here and in Seattle.

AFTER extracting ourselves from the 'who knows who' graph, guess how many graphs there are of connected folks?

One.

50 people, four cities, three universities, two coasts, and one graph.

Which means we have *NO* groups of friends that don't somehow, *independent of us*, connect to everyone else. Nobody left connected on the graph was introduced *by* us.

It's quite the diagram.

So everybody together now... "It's a small world, after all..."

Comments

[arthane.livejournal.com]

Friendship circles, particularly those involving computer aficionados, are incestuous lil' buggers.

Heh.

[flinx.livejournal.com]

I certainly wouldn't mind seeing a copy of that at some point, just for the heck of it. It sounds a lot like what some of the geeks at Brandeis tried doing in my last year there. They made it a little more complicated by trying to also indicate what kind of relations people had. I stopped paying attention when they claimed they needed to add a 4th dimension to get it displayed properly... *sigh*

[labrown.livejournal.com]

Has anyone mentioned lately that yer a geek? :-)

So, when do we see the business plan for a startup company to provide this as the next great social networking service?

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, the Boink Chart! Now there's something I haven't thought about in a really long time.... :)