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Most people understand it's not very controversial or even unexpected to just say,

look, you're affected by your friends.

But the point is that the influence doesn't stop at one degree of separation.

You can have a sequence of social interactions such that you come to be affected,

not just by your friends, but by your friends friends friends,

your friends friends or your friends friends friends or perhaps even your friends friends friends friends.

People you don't even know can affect you.

Now, when as soon as I say that, you think, well, okay, I can kind of see that with respect to germs.

Like right now you're not sick and your friends aren't sick,

but your friends friends are sick.

The germ is going to wind its way through the network and affect you,

but it also then happens with other things like emotions and ideas or behaviors.

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