Tag Archives: Facebook

Free Will, Sharing and Facebook

Face­book has been in the news a great deal lately. Early this week, they made some changes to their site design. Yes­ter­day, they announced Face­book Time­lines which is essen­tially a dig­i­tal rep­re­sen­ta­tion of your life that will be avail­able on the web unless you choose for it not to be. Nei­ther of these changes have

Google+ Is What I Want Facebook To Be

While it’s still very early in the process for Google+, already I’m see­ing things they are doing that I wish Face­book did. The pri­mary dif­fer­ence for me is the Cir­cles com­po­nent of Google+. From the descrip­tion: Google+ Cir­cles helps you orga­nize every­one accord­ing to your real-life social connections–say, ‘fam­ily,’ ‘work friends,’ ‘music bud­dies,’ and ‘alumni’.

Analyzing My Facebook Friends

Because I am weird (and because I only have 35 Face­book friends, mak­ing it pos­si­ble to turn my weird­ness into some data obser­va­tions), I have spent the last 10 min­utes ana­lyz­ing how many friends my friends have. On aver­age, they have 162.8857 friends (the per­son who is .8857th of a friend keeps show­ing up as