Friday, February 13, 2009

facebook friend triangle

i've been putting this post off because it's about facebook. and how do i make a single concise post about facebook? is it weak of me to admit that i love this social network thing? that its rise is perfectly timed with my new father shut-in phase each night from 8pm on? baby to bed, boot up laptop, fb!

so i'd like to frame this post around the 'facebook friend triangle'. i googled for an article on this concept but couldn't find one. maybe i'm making a scoop here? anyway a facebook friend triangle is when you make friends with someone and start snooping. are they fat? married? dating the opposite gender since the last time i saw them? and finally you root through their friends. and whammo they know another one of your friends and you never knew it. small small world.

i just made my fourth facebook friend triangle.

1. brian (a friend of a friend i met at a party) knows julio (who i work with) because they went to architecture school in pr together.

2. csl (in my triathlon club) knows cdb (who was my wife's roommate who moved to nyc the first week of september, 2001) because they both have written for the nytimes.

3. bethany (my wife's former coworker) knows sarah (my sister's old soccer teammate) as a fellow teacher at her brooklyn high school.

4. and candice (first person i met at virginia tech during summer orientation) who knows chris (who i've been friends with since i was 7) because she loves to dance to his dirtybird records dj sounds.

anyone else felt this phenomenon?