The details that make up the things you like, the things your friends like, and then the things that you share in common could be thought of as the properties of you and your friendships. This would allow for things such as suggesting new friends, finding events based on you and your friends matching interests, or even recording important dates such as the date you became friends or other shared life events. However, what if this connection went one step further and described more things about your relationship? You could include details that are common among you, such as the fact that you both love Avocados (who doesn’t!?) and then when you wanted to find friends to join you for the Avocado Festival you could easily query that information. So the simplest edge would be the line that connected you to a friend. ![]() You and your friends could be represented as individual vertices (nodes) and then the things that tie you together or describe your relationship would be an edge or the lines that connect the nodes. These connections can easily be translated into a graph and in fact, it could be very useful to structure a social network as a graph. This relationship between you, your friends, and their friends is a part of what forms your social network. In a social network, you have friends and something that is also common is that they may have other friends besides you (Gasp!), you may even be friends with those ‘other’ friends. ![]() An easy way to imagine a graph is thinking about a social network.
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