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by stevenameyer 4807 days ago
I couldn't agree more with this. Personally I would much rather have 1 person that I have fostered a very strong relationship then 10 people who I have weak connections with. I think that quality beats out quantity just about every time. Just my opinion.
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Personally I would much rather have 1 person that I have fostered a very strong relationship then 10 people who I have weak connections with. I think that quality out beats quantity just about every time.

Possibly, but maybe not...

http://acawiki.org/The_strength_of_weak_ties

http://sociology.stanford.edu/people/mgranovetter/documents/...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_ties#Weak_tie_hyp...

Some interesting links. There definitely is a point to a lot of weak ties, and I'm sure it works really well for some people. However I do tend to opt more towards a smaller close knit network, probably just my personality but I find that works a lot better for me.