About the Experiment – New Version

It seems my initial explanation of this experiment wasn’t good enough (perhaps not even to myself), so I will try to explain differently.

My experiment is about social networking.

Each one of us has a social network that consists of friends, family, etc. Each member of our social network has his own social network, and so on, and so on.

In this experiment, I wanted to see how my social network can connect me to people around the world. Let’s say that I live in France. My social network consists of people in France, and also some people in the UK. However, one of my friends has a friend in the US, and that friend has a friend in China, so theoretically, my social network can connect me to that person in China.

So basically, if I send a link to this site to my social network, and they send it to their social networks, I can theoretically reach most of the world, and that was my original goal.

However, I have found out that the limit here is of how people perceive the experiment, and if they don’t understand it, they won’t want to participate, and that’s what happened along the line. My social network did visit the site, and I got visits from their social network, but only up to a certain point, and now it has slowed down.

This is why I decided to expand the experiment. I will try to grab the interest of a blog, or web site, and try to get help from them, by publishing my experiment. You may claim that it will not test social networks, but rather how popular that web site is, but there is a way to work around it. I can have them ask people to send the direct link to the experiment site to their social networks. The analytics service that I use (Google Analytics) can show me how many people have arrived from the referring web site, and how many arrived by social networking. That could certainly work. Now I need to find volunteers.