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Jul. 7th, 2007 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ocelotI've seen several people mentioning LJ small world syndrome lately, and I've been having my own weird experiences with it.
Shortly after we went to the Pirate Festival, I was reading friendsfriends, and saw User W, who mentioned being at Pirate Festival with User X, who I know and had seen there. So I checked him out, figuring he was friends with the social group User X is associated with, but our actual friend-in-common was a random person in Alabama I'd found through a parenting community and added because we share a rare interest, which User W shared as well (12 users share it, including the three of us).
Yesterday, User Y linked to a poll that User Z posted. I filled out the poll and left a comment. She responded back asking if we knew eachother, because my name seemed familiar, and we had friends in common. I looked, and we're connected through 4 separate paths.
So just for fun, I went to http://www.livejournal.com/random.bml, plugged the resulting username (a Russian) into LJ_connect, and discovered that I'm 5 hops from him... through two distinctly separate paths.
So amusing.
(Random addition several months later... User X's wife A is dating User Y's boyfriend B, and A, B, X and Y seem to all be getting along quite well. Brain go splodey now.)
Shortly after we went to the Pirate Festival, I was reading friendsfriends, and saw User W, who mentioned being at Pirate Festival with User X, who I know and had seen there. So I checked him out, figuring he was friends with the social group User X is associated with, but our actual friend-in-common was a random person in Alabama I'd found through a parenting community and added because we share a rare interest, which User W shared as well (12 users share it, including the three of us).
Yesterday, User Y linked to a poll that User Z posted. I filled out the poll and left a comment. She responded back asking if we knew eachother, because my name seemed familiar, and we had friends in common. I looked, and we're connected through 4 separate paths.
So just for fun, I went to http://www.livejournal.com/random.bml, plugged the resulting username (a Russian) into LJ_connect, and discovered that I'm 5 hops from him... through two distinctly separate paths.
So amusing.
(Random addition several months later... User X's wife A is dating User Y's boyfriend B, and A, B, X and Y seem to all be getting along quite well. Brain go splodey now.)
