Oh…look at all the pretty colors!
No, I didn’t go crazy with a swirl art, I got a bit of creative motivation from Ari Herzog’s blog post about a new tool on Facebook, created by Thomas Fletcher. It is a facebook friend wheel, and all those colorful lines are a visual simulation of the mutual connections that my friends create. Ari explains the power of the wheel well, saying “before seeing this wheel, I was limited to viewing mutual friendships within the constraint of names and head shots. Now, I can see bands of color and plots of thickness to illustrate the bonds we share.” After looking at his, and checking out his thoughts on it, I had to check it out or myself (hence the pretty colors).
My connections with the most mutual friends were people I know from college (the reddish/yellow section) and the next was connections from twitter (green/blue section). It made sense, as I only graduated 4 years ago, and have maintained strong relationships with my college friends. Twitter contacts being a strong mutual connection also made sense as most of the people I follow, are followers of my followers (if that makes sense…) and I am also very involved with twitter.
I’m not quite as cool as Ari 
, but my 183 friends (the outside ring) create the 1000 spokes (the inner lines) that can still help me to better understand my connections. Oh, and if you haven’t yet, connect with me on facebook.
Related posts:
- Defining my social media system
- Social media friends vs Real life friends
- Can hearing color make you creative?
Kirsten
