Re:Teens 'rebelling against social media', say headteachers
by pmoriarty on Thursday October 05, 2017 @05:21PM
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"But those 87 people know and talk to 100 other people each,that's 10% of the city. Go two degrees of separation and it's the whole town."
While it's true that each of the people at these tiny gatherings probably know and talk to at least 10 people each, and those people talk to another 10 people each, that doesn't mean that they're talking about philosophy or skepticism. Most people just don't want to hear about either of those subjects, or anything else intellectual.
But those 87 people know and talk to 100 other people each,that's 10% of the city.
Go two degrees of separation and it's the whole town.
Students in a town generally only know other students. Students are actually pretty secluded. But normal people? They know their families, they know their friends, they know their colleagues, the people they do their hobbies with, their local shop owners, the people in their local Baby groups, the other parents in their schools, the people who the volunteer with, etc.
It's about how ideas spread, not about how many people are in one group.