Disassortative mixing in online social networks — mentioned by Anon84

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:11:19 GMT

This is relatively well known in (Complex) Network theory as applied to Social Networks. You're always more likely to be connected to a Hub (someone with high degree) that to a "leaf" (in the tree sense). If you plot the average number of friends your friends have versus the number of your friends on a log-log plot, you'll see a decreasing line. (See Fig. 2 of http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0450 for a recent example).

Paper and discussion history. A mention is not an endorsement.

Disassortative mixing in online social networks · HackerPapers discussions

Disassortative mixing in online social networks — mentioned by Anon84