| Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives |  | Authors: Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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ISBN: 0316036145
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Your colleague's husband's sister can make you fat, even if you don't know her. A happy neighbor has more impact on your happiness than a happy 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 explain 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 ideas, emotions, health, relationships, behavior, politics, and much more. It will change the way we think about every aspect of our lives.
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 The power of social networks in our lives July 27, 2010
Ypatios Varelas (Greece)
A nice try to explain the importance of social networks for our success, health, wealth, hapiness, relationships, behaviours, emotional states, etc. It confirms many things that we already knew or suspected. Contains a lot of research data and references, while trying to make those understandable by common people. This is stuff that should be teached in schools.
Why does the Kindle edition cost more than the paperback one? April 22, 2010
Alliouga (Charleston, SC, USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have not read the book, so this is not a review (I've given it 4 stars just to reflect what most people seem to average out at) . . . but in thinking of buying it, I look at the options . . . . and wonder why the Kindle edition costs more than the paperback?
connections April 16, 2010
Erminia Ianniello (italy rome)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
it summarize my life filosofy: it 's not about what you know, in the life it's all about who you knnow!
Social Networks: More powerful than you think April 7, 2010
Emre Sevinc (Antwerp, Belgium)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
What happens to my friends, my friends' friends and my friends' friends' friends when I finish my review about this books which is about social networks? What happens when I say I recommend this book and state this on some social networking / social reading site? Can I affect 10 people? Can they affect 100 people in total? And can those 100 people affect about 1000 people? And what about simpler things such as my eating habits? Does my weight and lifestyle affect a much bigger circle of people than I thought? What about voting? Everybody knows that a single vote nearly never changes anything and rationally, economically I should not vote. But I do? Am I irrational or am I simply acting according to the hidden laws of social networks?
You'll find many answers in this thought-provoking book. You'll ask lots of questions, too. And you'll never view your circle of friends with the same perspective again.
The last 40-50 pages of the book seems a little bit out of focus, jumpîng from subject to subject without providing much context and connection but taking these imperfections into account I can still say this is one of the books that deserves to be categorized as "food for thought". I have marked lots of pages and references for further reading and pursuing a better understanding of why we do what we do.
Valuable to see related studies and theories pulled together so well March 26, 2010
Andrew D. Oram (Arlington, Mass., USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Most of the research in this book has already been widely reported in the popular press--a sign of its value--but like the phenomena the authors describe, the book is much greater than the sum of its parts. The carefully build a view of life from many areas of social science (while generally admitting that there are alternative ways to interpret the phenomena) and end up with one of those "big ideas" that publishers love. I'm quite willing to entertain this big idea: the ways we informally connect to each other defines us as people and influences our behavior profoundly. I did notice, however, that the authors moved more freely than I'd like between strong evidence supported by quantitative research and conclusions based on speculation about what caused the results.
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