I've been working like crazy over the weekend to get everything done before the Benthic Ecology Meeting that starts tomorrow, and I think it's been pretty successful because now I'm sitting here with 4 hours to go before my train leaves and I have nothing pressing to do.
So: in addition to my dive log, guess what is an awesome source of data?
Facebook. All the friends I have and all the friends I forgot I had. I decided to graph my Facebook friends against when I first met them. Interestingly but unsurprisingly, there are obvious jumps corresponding to starting at new schools in Primary 4, Secondary 1 and JC. I pretty much lost touch with anyone I went to school with before P4. (The curve starts above zero to account for family members who are older than me.)
Obviously this is a limited dataset because plenty of people aren't on Facebook. I also clean out my friendslist once in a while, so the people graphed are the people I care at least somewhat about. Current total: 273.
On the subject of social networks, my research advisor told me to make the best of this conference and do some networking!!! I think my idea of networking is hanging around networked-people that I know...then when other networked-people come to talk to them, they have to talk to me too to be polite.
Benthics in 24 hours!! :)
I'm going to keep this dataset and re-graph it when I graduate. How many miles can one travel in 4 years of undergrad education? We shall see.
