Study Examines Link Between Partners’ Facebook Friends, Strength Of Relationships

Can the closeness of the mutual friends of both participants in a romantic relationship help determine the strength of that relationship? A study by Cornell University Computer Scientist Jon Kleinberg and Facebook Engineer Lars Backstrom sought to find out.

Can the closeness of the mutual friends of both participants in a romantic relationship help determine the strength of that relationship? A study by Cornell University Computer Scientist Jon Kleinberg and Facebook Engineer Lars Backstrom sought to find out.

Kleinberg and Backstrom studied data from 1.3 million randomly selected, anonymous Facebook users, all of whom were at least 20 years old, with anywhere from 50 to 2,000 friends, and all of whom indicated in their profiles that they were in relationships, analyzing a total of some 379 million nodes and 8.6

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