What is the Transitivity of the verb.
If a b and b c then a c(Transitivity).
This feature thus has the effect of increasing Transitivity in the Facebook social graph;
However, the magnitude of Transitivity in the Facebook social graph is partially driven by algorithmic confounding.
Thus, one might conclude that patterns of
friendship on Facebook replicate patterns of offline friendships, at least in terms of Transitivity.
That is,
data scientists at Facebook knew of the empirical and theoretical research about Transitivity and then baked it into how Facebook works.
In other words, the theory of Transitivity brings the world into line with the predictions of the theory(Zignani et al. 2014;
Healy 2015).
Facebook has a“People You May Know” feature that suggests new friends,
and one way that Facebook decides who to suggest to you is Transitivity.