{"id":5889,"date":"2012-06-12T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5889"},"modified":"2012-06-12T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T03:28:00","slug":"connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5889","title":{"rendered":"Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4992\" title=\"userpic=livejournal\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpiclivejournal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"66\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>One of the things I find interesting about Facebook are the connections it uncovers when it suggests friends. I notice this when I periodically scan the list of suggested &#8220;friends&#8221; to see if it actually found any real-life friends. In doing this, I often discover that my circles of friends intersect in all sorts of strange ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Example #1:<\/strong> Rabbi Lisa Hochberg-Miller. Rabbi Hochberg-Miller is a rabbi out at Temple Beth Torah in Ventura, who I&#8217;ve met a couple of times when I&#8217;ve been to her congregation. Not surprisingly, she&#8217;s friends with my cousins that live in Ventura, and some of the rabbis that I know. But, surprise-surprise, she&#8217;s also a friend of some family friends in St. Louis. How they know her, I have no idea.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Example #2:<\/strong> Mark Kaplan. Mark is a regular director out at REP East in Saugus. We&#8217;re subscribers there and have grown to be friends with the theatre&#8217;s leadership, so it is no surprise that Mark was suggested based on the theatre folk. But he&#8217;s also friends with a loads and loads (try over a dozen) people I know from camp. Now I&#8217;m wondering if I should know Mark from my years at camp.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Example #3<\/strong>: There are a large number of people that are friends from Livejournal, most coming through my connections with Nicole and the various dance groups she&#8217;s been in. It turns out these folks have mutual friends with a friend from high school I recently connected with.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So what odd connections have you discovered through what Facebook suggests to you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Music: <\/strong><em>Buffalo Springfield<\/em> (Buffalo Springfield): Bluebird<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I find interesting about Facebook are the connections it uncovers when it suggests friends. I notice this when I periodically scan the list of suggested &#8220;friends&#8221; to see if it actually found any real-life friends. In doing this, I often discover that my circles of friends intersect in all sorts of <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5889\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5891,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions\/5891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}