Reminds me of an article [1] that demonstrated why all of your friends are more popular than you are.<p>A new connection is more likely to come from someone with a large number of connections (since they will be making larger numbers of new connections than someone who is unconnected). Therefore, a new friend will have more friends than you and, in relation to this link, will bring a lot more to your network.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jan/30/change-your-life-friends-popular" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jan/30/change-yo...</a>
a link to the original paper: <a href="http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nphys1860.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nphys1...</a>