Facebook: Actual Friends vs. People You Hate
CARPE DIEM
Professor Mark J. Perry's Blog for Economics and Finance
Sunday, December 06, 2009
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- Name: Mark J. Perry
- Location: Washington, D.C., United States
Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University near Washington, D.C. In addition, he holds an MBA degree in finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. In addition to a faculty appointment at the University of Michigan-Flint, Perry is also a visiting scholar at The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
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6 Comments:
Great chart. I would suggest one more category: Family members.
Yes, very good... sincerly, I don´t share membership in facebook, because I suspect somehow like this.
this is the precise reason that mining the social graphs on facebook for affinity marketing data has proved so fruitless.
people are far to promiscuous with their "friending" for the graphs to be meaningful.
ask yourself: how many of my facebook friends would pick me up at the airport if i asked?
haha.. definitely guitly of having all the college people i met on my facebook and i dont even like them.
theres actaully a funny app called 'defriend tracker' that allows you to see your 'frenemies' that unfriend you first
regards,
aio bot
You forgot total strangers who are networking. I am such a person. I would rather be FB friends with strangers than with the vast majority of people I went to high school and even college with. LOL. They are a lot nicer, more interesting, and there's no baggage between us.
This just in: MIT students outsmart DARPA's Facebook "friends" experiment!
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