TrustFlow results for torrain

[torrain_circles]

I tried out TrustFlow II for LiveJournal.
The following people not on the friends list for torrain are close by:

• blackwell, planetx (100 - 150)


• theweaselking, porphyre, thenowhere, jessicamelusine, imomus, steverolston, crisper, pendamuse, madolan, charitylarrison, wicked_wish, jwz, digifox, stelpa, janet_harvey, sbisson, hepkitten, statichowl, jacen, twistedcat, inannamaiya, stepinrazor (150 - 200)


• dolston, eididdy, dgg, thathatedguy, pope_guilty, doclawless, benarian, zenten, oddest1, trisket, jagash, boggangirl, marveen, amokk, lucien_soulban, nephilpal, jedwardtremlett, cowboyghostie, paradoxfriendly, cursedclown, spera001, sanityimpaired, the_tall_man, chrsjxn, finaira, twist_nack, shamrock_19_79, verdandiweaves, cuntishness, the_rook, ladyortyger, masterghoti, dieseling, arcanusvitae, theinnocence, slinka, deathboy, william_vitka, markeris, granov, killerkeychain, boopiesmack (200 - 250)


• lilrivkah, chadmichaelward, ben_templesmith, wyldkyss, brianwood, diosa_en_disfra, fragilemuse, tristan_crane (250 - 300)


• hearinmyhead, man_size, silveraj, theremina, mindslide, bunny_babe, budgie_uk, januarychill, ladydagger2evil, alasdair, josienutter, nef_712, _nefertari_, blueella, acid_poptart, electricana, carahkristel, provoca7eur, daevas, glamourbeastie, reannaremick, lilithium, ghsthckr, darktor, basaltbasilisk (300 - 350)


• zenostortoise (350 - 400)

Created by ciphergoth; hosted by LShift.
TrustFlow II: Who is closest to your friends list?

Must confess, I was rather thrown by the number of names I recognized.

Comments

[psyco-path.livejournal.com]

I think it's halarious that I met you through all of those people who are not on your friends list.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

*grin* It just throws me that the two "closest" are two people I don't recognize *at all*.

Habit from when I started using LJ; I'd check my Friends list right before heading out the door, and I *knew* that anything personal, relevant, or painful would prompt a long response and make me late.

G'bless tabbed browsing, anyway.

[ankhayra.livejournal.com]

I recognize 1 person on your list: josienutter.

I tried this myself, and out of 100, I recognize 18, among which some quite known people. I also read about the algorithm, and it seems to be having a little possible problem: your short friends list is more worth than moontrip's huge list (I think +500).

[torrain.livejournal.com]

It makes sense to me, actually. There's a huge overlap in the f-lists of my friends and friends of friends; if most of the people I read about and recognized were on my Friends list, then they wouldn't show up on the TrustFlow, because they'd already be on my friends list.

As I understand it, jl_williams has dolston and theweaselking friended, then anyone who shows up on all three of their friends list is going to rank very highly. But if I had jl_williams and dolston and theweaselking and all the people I usually read already friended, none of them would show up, and the odds of a particular person showing up would get smaller.

The bigger the pool, the smaller the overlap, so the smaller the concentration any one particular person will have, so the smaller the list.

[the-tall-man.livejournal.com]

You're on my F-list, and JL_Williams ties in to my f-list - which is a pretty fair network.

I think that accounts for about ten of the names.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Especially given that I actually only have four individuals on my friends list; jl_williams, onsra, warren_ellis, and ursulav. It's just that Warren Ellis has three journals, and Ursula Vernon has two, so there's even more concentration going on.

[iclysdale.livejournal.com]

That's extremely interesting, in that I think it reflects a huge difference in the ways that people use LJ -- as part of online communities build online, or to keep in touch with extended networks of friends that are primarily offline. In my case, there wasn't a single person out of the 100 results that I didn't know who it was -- three or four I had to look at the userinfo because I didn't recognize the LJ name, but once I'd done so I knew who it was.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

I do use LJ (but not my Friends list; my Friends list is my personal broadcast station, a la Pandora) to keep in touch with people, but mostly people that I can't keep in touch with any other way. Individuals who live in a different city (country), I understand that phone calls and casual conversations may not be possible, and e-mails tend to revolve around specific queries. Hence, LJ.

(This is leaving aside that it's fundamentally a bulletin board where the onus is on me to go see what you're talking about. Which is why LJ invitations--or hell, cancellation--drive me only slightly less batshit than top-posting. Announcements are fine. Invitations, no. Personal cancellations, hell no.)

Thus, for example, if a dear friend who lived in-city were to be dropping into the hospital for notable surgical procedures, I might be somewhat miffed were I not told directly.

Dear.

:)