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Masses of single-folks 'hooking up' on Facebook is equally if not more boring close-up and from afar than masses of family-centric people.

It's better to say "Masses are boring". Just read the comments at CNN.com or YouTube which mostly read like meaningless chatter.



I totally agree that social interaction quality declines as group size increases - interactions will always approximate the lowest common denominator of a group over time.

However, I was not trying to imply or judge what is boring on facebook. Just trying to point out that the interaction activity around single women is more dynamic and less predictable than the interaction activity around mothers / families, and further that social security blankets are beginning to rule fb, by the numbers. Networks for the purpose of social security, by definition, are risk averse and less dynamic.

That being said, I'd love to see some analytics around unique page views of single women vs the rest of facebook users to see what facebook users on average consider interesting / boring.




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