Comments on: Today in Bacon… http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/2008/08/04/today-in-bacon/ The odd parity bit Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:26:38 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Preed http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/2008/08/04/today-in-bacon/comment-page-1/#comment-39682 Preed Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:07:21 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/?p=71#comment-39682 "This IM conversation may be monitored for quality assurance..." “This IM conversation may be monitored for quality assurance…”

]]> By: Erwan http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/2008/08/04/today-in-bacon/comment-page-1/#comment-39657 Erwan Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:13:21 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/?p=71#comment-39657 It doesn't really mean that any human being is connected by 7 or fewer, because: * MSN messenger users are not a random set of people, they're more likely to be connected to each others because of the network effect (i.e. people use MSN because their friends do) * Exchanging an IM doesn't really mean you're connected, it can be random chat (or spam). So... It's fun to hear, as you say scary for MSN users (although GTalk also logs everything, because you can search it in GMail) but doesn't give much info about the "6 degrees of separation"). It doesn’t really mean that any human being is connected by 7 or fewer, because:
* MSN messenger users are not a random set of people, they’re more likely to be connected to each others because of the network effect (i.e. people use MSN because their friends do)
* Exchanging an IM doesn’t really mean you’re connected, it can be random chat (or spam).

So… It’s fun to hear, as you say scary for MSN users (although GTalk also logs everything, because you can search it in GMail) but doesn’t give much info about the “6 degrees of separation”).

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