How to win friends and influence people
Philip BeechingBeechwood
'Social Networks' are not a new phenomenon. The term was first used in the 1950s by a man called J.A. Barnes, who was studying human relations in a Norwegian fishing village, and social network analysis has emerged as a key technique in modern sociology, anthropology, social psychology, information science and organisational studies.
The so-called rule of 150, states that the size of a genuine social network is limited to about 150 members and the 'small world phenomenon' is the hypothesis that the chain of social acquaintances required to connect one...