400 Friends

2009/06/17 Written by Vaneeesa Blaylock Social Networks

And another hundred *friends* enrich my life in myriad ways! A couple of interesting things happened this hundred:

• Yes, of course Facebook continued to send me warnings that they hate popular girls, and they’ll ban me if I make too many friends. However… they slightly changed the way they send out their “we’re gonna give you a time-out” warnings… so for a minute there I thought maybe they’d stopped with the threats. At first you wonder… then it’s liberating… and then… it’s a bit of a let-down… I hadn’t realized how much “flying under the radar” is actually about the fun of flying under the radar! For that brief moment that I thought FB wasn’t limiting me… adding friends got boring!

The reason I started this post with that “Friends Grid” of my 400 friends, is that… TouchGraph stopped working! It still works for people who aren’t me… so… am I on Facebook probation? IDK… very sad… because the truth is… some Facebookers try to make a lot of friends because it helps them play the game “Mafia Wars”… I like a lot of friends… well… for a few reasons… but the biggest one is that I like to play the *game* “Network Visualization”… and just like Mafia Wars, in my game, more friends means more action.

The Touchgraph above is from about a week or so ago… when I had 350 or so friends. IDK if I’ll ever be able to graph the current network?

Still, you can clearly see the “cancerous” sovereign nation of Second Life continue to, like nanobots with a defective self-replication-stop switch, take over my network. As always, you can click on any image to see a larger version… but you really have to blowded up this one… LOOK at all the interconnectivity between these SL-ers! That’s a dense network, baby!