analysis of the social graph. personal.

Arthur Rock: “People, people, people.” People are around you. Those, with whom you study (studied), work (worked), have (had) a good time, live (lived). Some of them are familiar with each other. Someone has fewer friends in common with you, someone has more.

Strong ties
See the seal connections where there is a group of people with whom you do (did) something together. Each group has its own social activist. Such person links the group inside.

Weak ties
There are people who are not in only one of your groups, but they are in two or more groups. These people link different groups together.

Often your familiar connects two of your group due to natural causes, such as:
- studied together at school, and then further;
- studied together, and then worked in the same company;
- moved together from one company to another;
- work(ed) in one company with a relative.

If your friend joins three or more of your communities, you have a lot in common. Or this friend’s set of connections is a result of targeted efforts.

Graph connectivity
Your groups can be not linked among themselves. If you are young. Or this is your profession. Or you didn’t display your connections, and this is your job.

Socialization
If you have a friend with no friends in common, this connection is superficial. That is, it is a contact, but not socialization yet.
There is always the biggest simply-connected part of the graph. You live in this part. Either you have a transition period.

Contacts and connections
A thousand of unconnected contacts is just spammer database. A thousand-contact network is your social capital.

You need to achieve. You want to raise your capitalization in the labor market and/or in the market of corporate control. This is only possible when using your social capital. You already have it surely, and now is the time to its revision.

You can calculate persons through whom the wind of change is streaming. Or through which you can send the wind. Anyway, you need special attention to communicate with these people.

Your personal graph has not only key persons but key links between them too. Current, prospective, concealed. Different.

Warning
Social graph is a model of reality, but not reality itself.