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Doing Digital
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Doing Digital

by Ved Sen
January 2023
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
270 pages
6h 1m
English
Business Expert Press
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CHAPTER 20

Networks—We Live Inside Them

The Science of Networks

There is a cartoon about social networking—a funeral of a man with just five people in attendance, and somebody saying, “ … but I don’t understand, he had over 2000 Facebook friends!” It’s funny when you see it through the eyes that believe a true friend, somebody who will come to your funeral, is worth more than hundreds of virtual, online, Facebook or effectively fake friends. I have an opposite view. I think it’s pretty amazing that a person who has five friends at his funeral would have had 2,000 people who he knew and could connect with.

On another note, my friends are split between those who publish their birthdays on social media and those who expect their true friends to ...

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ISBN: 9781637424100