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Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis

Yes, this is a great analogy. Comparison of modern social media to traditional social interactions discussed in Chapter 8 (“Hyperconnected”) of @connected_book 1/ twitter.com/jonhaidt/statu…

Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis

Modern social media and traditional inter-personal interactions are, we argue in @connected_book, "the same but different." The are the same insofar as friendship, social influence, and homophily ("birds of a feather") have always been with us. 2/

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But online social interactions are different in four regards (page 275 of @connected_book): 1) "Enormity: a vast increase in the scale of our networks and the numbers of people who might be reached to join them." 3/

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"2) Communality: a broadening of the scale by which we can share information and contribute to collective efforts." That is, an increase in our ability to work together, for good or ill. 4/

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Online networks have "3) Specificity: an impressive increase in the particularity of the ties we can form." We can now identify specific types of people we want to connect to much more easily, often increasing echo chambers. 5/

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And "4) Virtuality: the ability to assume virtual identities." It was always possible to pretend to be someone else, but this is made much easier online. And this can decrease, or increase, honesty and/or fidelity of information. 6/

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For a wonderful, insightful, and broad set of essays from @edge from 2010 on whether and how the Internet is changing how we think, see: edge.org/contributors/h… 7/

Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis

My own take back then @edge: the internet and online media are changing some aspects of our lives, but leaving other, deep, features of our humanity untouched: edge.org/q2010/q10_3.ht… 8/ pic.twitter.com/muwGPnupGN

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