Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
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- ISBN13: 9780316036146
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Your colleague’s spouse’s sister can make you stout, even if you don’t know her. A pleased national has more impact on your happiness than a pleased spouse. These startling revelations of how much we truly influence one another are revealed in the studies of Drs. Christakis and Fowler, which have repeatedly made front-page news nationwide.
In CONNECTED, the authors clarify why emotions are contagious, how health behaviors spread, why the rich get richer, even how we find and choose our partners. Intriguing and entertaining, CONNECTED overturns the notion of the individual and provides a revolutionary paradigm-that social networks influence our thoughts, emotions, health, relationships, behavior, politics, and much more. It will change the way we reflect about every aspect of our lives.
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Whatever happened to proper logic study? Correlation is not causation, no matter how much bigotry backs it up. This guy claims “overeating” is clannish, yet FAT PEOPLE DO NOT EAT DIFFERENTLY THAN THINNER PEOPLE. Stout people tend to group together for the same reasons Blacks and the Disabled group together — BIGOTRY. This book is like a terrible message board — the discussion is only there in result to unchallenged assumptions and preconceptions. No science in sight. Give this one a miss.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I was so excited to read this book, and boy was I let down. I only made it about a third of the way through and then abandoned it altogether. I did delight in looking at the cool graphic illustrations, but I didn’t learn anything. The points they made were obvious to anyone who lives on the planet. Maybe it is a trend to write books that over clarify what we all know, but there are too many excellent books on the market to waste time reading something superfluous. The part of the book I read was one statistic after another, and I take statistics with a grain of salt–maybe someday a name will write a book about the statistics of getting accurate statistics. A more entertaining presentation of connectedness can be establish in the fictional novel HAPPINESS by Will Ferguson, and a excellent physics book will give you much more appealing descriptions for the same.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Fantastic book.
It’ll be appealing to see the Social Network effects of persistent artifacts – books, letters, emails, laws, videos, blogs, LinkedIn/Twitter Follows… including this Connected book itself.
Sort of language, while absent.
Persistent artifacts are shared, and probably have an effect similar to direct contact with the leader, even after an Leader’s life change.
Examples -
Bible, Koran and Tao de Ching.
Magna Carta
Susan Boyle – Britain’s Got Talent
…
The authors chat about the Telephone game and errors, while re-telling.
Artifacts tend to avoid errors; until frames of reference, language translation, miss-reading, etc. introduce different messages – possibly with intentional bias.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I never thought network can be so powerful, until I read this book and adore it!
How I feel, what I wear, food I ate etc get influenced by my national, my sister, my sister friend etc. The most appealing part, is the possibility of shaping our own network. We are the center of our universe….we can choose who will be in our personal network. Be wise who we befriended with..otherwise one terrible apples in our network will spread the worm to the whole networks member. Facebook for example one terrible comment or picture will spread to the whole people in the planet to see…how?…the network!
So who’s in your network?
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Christakis and Flower have made a unique book that straddles a number of different subjects and genres. They have made a book that applies research about social networks to clarify a range of issues and phenomenon. The book is well structured and while a small verbose and repetitive it was an informative and comprehensive book.
The first part of the book concentrates on describing the structure and mechanics of social networks. The first 60 pages or so set up the framework for the rest of the book. This part of the book is applicable to a wide range of readers, from business people looking to know social networks, to social scientist and others.
The rest of the book discusses the application of social networks on topics as wide ranging as how you met your spouse, the transmission of sexual disease, teen suicide and others. These sections are well written, researched and balanced. In this regard the authors are to be commended, as the topics additional authors would exploit these sensitive theme in gladwellian fashion.
The book gets four stars in my opinion in part because the book is a small long and repetitive and could have all ears more on how social networks can be solutions than describing social networks in these situations.
This book is not a business book, its not entirely a sociology book. It is a excellent discussion of how social systems change society. A recommended read.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5