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Blind growth and social networking technology


Source: Thingamy
July 8, 2008
Thingamy
Blind growth and social networking technology Hat tip to Doc and his post where he comments and links to this, this and this - all suggesting that a network, or group, at some point of growth diminishes in value for each new participant. Appropriately termed as Metcalfe's plateau.

Spam always follows size of the network, and we know that groups at some point (quickly) becomes too large for real conversations so that would not be a huge surprise.

Organisations realised this a long time ago. The Roman army had ten subordinates per... RSS Share it

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