It’s a small world after all

I liked the additional reading this week, the chapter  Small Worlds from Barabási, Albert-László. Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life.

I found the diagram above interesting. The author relates networks to friends and acquaintances in one’s life, where we are exposed to our strong ties regularly and easily and for new information we must access our weaker ties/networks. Coming from a small suburb  and having attended a small school, my networks I would say are rather small, yet ‘strong’ according to the reading. I agree in that our ‘weak ties play a crucial role in our ability to communicate with the outside world’ as if it were not for university, work and other ties, I would not be socially informed and be an outside outside of my immediate network.