E-Mail Can Reveal Your Friend Hierarchy 85
sciencehabit writes "It's not surprising that someone could guess your friends simply by peeking at your e-mail. But a more detailed look at your electronic communications could reveal which friends are closer to you than others, according to a new study. The trick has to do with response time--the time it takes for a sender to respond to e-mails from different contacts. The fastest responses went to friends and that the slowest responses went to acquaintances, with colleagues somewhere in between."
Re:Fast Reply (Score:2, Funny)
Technically you're friends with money
Re:Fast Reply (Score:4, Funny)
Being drunk often breaks this. When I'm drunk, I do everything randomly. Sometimes I email, sometimes I dont. Sometimes it goes to who it belongs to, sometimes it goes to random persons, sometimes it goes to my parents. Sometimes the message can contain valid stuff, sometimes the messages can contain solution to some hard problem, sometimes sexual suggestions and sometimes crying back my old girlfriends. Even if it ended up to my mother.
Forget about thermal noise or quantum phenomena. Beer and vodka makes everything truly random!
Uh-huh... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Is this an article from 2005? (Score:3, Funny)