Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do

Ajouté : 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]On average, your friends have more friends than you do. It's called the Friendship Paradox.

[00:00:05]People who have more friends appear in more people's friend lists, so they dominate any random sample. Facebook 2011, across 721 million users, the average user had 190 friends.

[00:00:17]Their friends averaged 635.

[00:00:21]Same story for co-authors, followers, anywhere a network has hubs.

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