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...Bryce A. Ward, a graduate student and tutorial leader in economics, sees the same potential. Ward recently organized a study comparing friendships in the Quad with those in the River houses and used TheFacebook to gather data...
...Ward is quite aware of the program’s obvious flaws...
...real question of TheFacebook’s validity is, do these ‘friendships’ have meaning?” says Ward. It doesn’t take an economist to figure that Facebook fiend Dongbo Yu ‘07 might not consider all of his 578 Facebook “friends” his best buddies. Although Möbius’ study improves on loose social connections by weeding out the random kid from Freshman Week, using TheFacebook to research actual friendships is inherently flawed...
Regardless, obscure Facebook friends can become a useful asset, and that kind of networking is of great interest to researchers like Möbius and Ward...
...level social interactions can get you a job,” says Ward. “TheFacebook allows you to see the bigger picture...