Fixing the Social Media Crisis
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
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What Is the Structure of a Social Network?
Agrithms are the algorithms that show you, or suggest to you, who you should connect to on social media next. They exist on facebook, on lincton on twitter, on every major a digital social media network in the world. The way we form our relationships is determined in large part by these recommendations. These algratoms are going around closing triangles, meaning that they are just recommending friends of friends to us. This makes our human social network more clustered and more homophalous than we would expect in a state of nature. We tend to be connected to people who are like ourselves. And secondlyt we are connected in what are known as homophalus works
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