For anyone else that was confused about why this really holds true, I thought this read was helpful.You are more likely to be friends with someone who has more friends than with someone who has fewer friends. There are 12 people who have a friend who has 12 friends, but there is only one person who has a friend who has only one friend. And, of course, there is no one who has a friend who doesn’t have any friend. Yet there is actually only one person who has 12 friends. So “12” gets counted only once when you compute the average number of friends that people have, but it gets counted 12 times when you compute the average number of friends that their friends have. Hence the seeming paradox that your friends have more friends than you do.
Well, this helped me gather the scattered pieces of my own head and put them back together. That makes perfect sense, once you get over the sense that the conclusion does not make!
I looked through my Facebook friends, and guess what? It holds. That's really trippy.
It's not just you man, it holds true for 93% of Facebook users too. Whoa.
"Other people's lives seem more interesting Because they ain't mine" ~ Isaac Brock.
Well I guess it's true: Everyone else had had more sex than me (on average).