You may or may not know me. This is me being bored and playing out an interesting idea. It all began when I was screwing around with my Live Journal friends list. I was looking at who knew whom, and clicked on names I knew. Clicking accidentally on a random name, I discovered someone with a hundred or so friends, so I randomly clicked on another name, then another, and another, and so forth.
I started thinking to myself, "Wow, he knows her, who knows him, who knows her, who knows him..." you get the point... and all of the sudden I was looking at the info of someone who was separated distantly in geography, but relatively close in circle of friends.
I then became curious, "Can I find my way back by going forward?". Thus this message is a trail of bread crumbs to mark my passing through your journal; you are the 12th person I’ve said “Hi” to.
A fleeting thought passed through my mind as to what would a diagram look like of every "circle" of friends for every Live Journal user. I thought of my circle of friends and of my friends circles intersecting in three dimensions, some big, some small, some nearly parallel, some nearly perpendicular. I thought of my friends circles, my friends friends circles, all the way up to my friends to the infinite power circles.
I imagined the whole diagram to look like a perfect crystal matrix, eddies of circles connected to the main mass by one circle, small spheres floating out in the middle as part of the whole but not connected, maybe even that one who is supposedly friends with everyone. It definitely brought to mind fractals: the Mandelbrot set, Sierpinski's triangle, stuff like that. As a whole, it appears to be a perfect, right-on-the-bell-curve object, but magnify the shape a trillion fold and the fragments of imperfect humanity reveal themselves to form a perfect shape.
I admit the thought only started with my circle of friends, and me immediately jumping to the big picture perfect shape; but hey, what do you expect for a fleeting thought?
I want to try to click away from myself and see if I can't find my way forward, back from where I started; I want to leave a trail to see just how long it takes me, and who's willing to say "Hi!" to me on my journey; I want to try this sometime soon; look for me; try and find me.
You may or may not know me. This is me being bored and playing out an interesting idea. It all began when I was screwing around with my Live Journal friends list. I was looking at who knew whom, and clicked on names I knew. Clicking accidentally on a random name, I discovered someone with a hundred or so friends, so I randomly clicked on another name, then another, and another, and so forth.
I started thinking to myself, "Wow, he knows her, who knows him, who knows her, who knows him..." you get the point... and all of the sudden I was looking at the info of someone who was separated distantly in geography, but relatively close in circle of friends.
I then became curious, "Can I find my way back by going forward?". Thus this message is a trail of bread crumbs to mark my passing through your journal; you are the 12th person I’ve said “Hi” to.
A fleeting thought passed through my mind as to what would a diagram look like of every "circle" of friends for every Live Journal user. I thought of my circle of friends and of my friends circles intersecting in three dimensions, some big, some small, some nearly parallel, some nearly perpendicular. I thought of my friends circles, my friends friends circles, all the way up to my friends to the infinite power circles.
I imagined the whole diagram to look like a perfect crystal matrix, eddies of circles connected to the main mass by one circle, small spheres floating out in the middle as part of the whole but not connected, maybe even that one who is supposedly friends with everyone. It definitely brought to mind fractals: the Mandelbrot set, Sierpinski's triangle, stuff like that. As a whole, it appears to be a perfect, right-on-the-bell-curve object, but magnify the shape a trillion fold and the fragments of imperfect humanity reveal themselves to form a perfect shape.
I admit the thought only started with my circle of friends, and me immediately jumping to the big picture perfect shape; but hey, what do you expect for a fleeting thought?
I want to try to click away from myself and see if I can't find my way forward, back from where I started; I want to leave a trail to see just how long it takes me, and who's willing to say "Hi!" to me on my journey; I want to try this sometime soon; look for me; try and find me.
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