This is not the "Stages of Faith" James Fowler, this is medical geneticist and social scientist James Fowler, author of Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives (with Nicholas A. Christakis). According to Wikipedia:
Connected draws on previously published and unpublished studies, including the Framingham Heart Study and makes several new conclusions about the influence of social networks on human health and behavior.[27] In Connected, they put forward their "Three Degrees of Influence" rule about human behavior, which theorizes that each person's individual social influence stretches three degrees before it fades out.[28][29]This is a good talk on how our actions ripple out into the world, even more so with social networking.
James Fowler - Back to the Village
James Fowler has been studying the power that real and virtual social networks have to influence our behavior. For thousands of years, human beings were conditioned to living in villages with a social sphere of about 150 other people. It's only recently that we have become isolated and anonymous. Online social networks are a return to the village where our actions have consequences on others around us. Fowler's work shows that our life actions, positive and negative, affect the people we know personally, their friends, and even their friends' friends.
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