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Re:Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis [pdf] by nostromo on Thursday October 22, 2020 @12:48PM (#24860086)
If each person knows around 300 people, friends-of-friends includes almost 100,000 people.

When you’re casting such a wide net, of course you’ll hear about rare events. (And the more unusual it is, the more likely you are to hear about it from friends.)

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Re:Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis [pdf] by ImprobableTruth on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:23PM (#24860536)
I'm pretty sure the average amount of friends is more like 15-20 than 300.
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Re:Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis [pdf] by nradov on Thursday October 22, 2020 @03:54PM (#24862634)
It depends on how you define friends. Several years ago the average Facebook user had over 300 "friends". Now they might not spend much time with most of that 300 but they at least see some posts.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/02/03/what-people...

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