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Strange Ways Friends Influence Your Life & Why It is So Hard to Ask for Help

Something You Should Know

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The Effect of Networks on You

The influence that people have on you is determined by how many friends you have and the quality of those friendships. Some people have networks where all their friends know each other, and some networks where none of their friends knows each other. Voting behaviour will vary according to whether your friends do get along with each other or not. And a it turns out that how interconnected my friends are affects many things - for example, teen age girls more likely to think about suicide depending on who they had as friends.

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