Friend wheel

Years ago I played around with a facebook app called "Friend Wheel" which generates a rainbow colored circle arrangement of your friends and shows the links between each of them (if they're friends or not).  When you mouse over someone's name it highlight's their connections and displays a number of how many connections they have within the circle.  When I first discovered this I found that I had the most number of common friends with one, Melanie Tess Hansen, a girl who had been in my high school, and also in my freshman ward at BYU.  My roommate had also been a high school friend, but he wasn't' a big user of facebook, so he ranked some 40 or 50 common friends less.  The runner up to Melanie (if I remember correctly) was Steffanie Meyer, also a friend from high school and was dating one of my freshman roommates.

Then I went on a mission and made lots of friends there, but facebook wasn't used much in the philippines at the time.  When I came home I became fb friends with lots of my american companions and mission buddies, and over the course of about a year, many of the filipinos I knew also got on facebook and extended my friend connections there.

For the next two years I roomed with one of my original roommates from my freshman year, and to my surprise of of my next door neighbors was a friend from my mission.  A girl from my post-mission ward became my girlfriend and then my fianceé and now my wife.  This is how all those people stack up now:

Melanie Hansen - 120
Chris Taney - 154
Steffanie Meyer Reece - 105
Cameron Reece - 140
Austin Lund - 169
Stephanie Ashby Murray - 104
Erin Murray Herd - 106
David Hyde - 125

(The significance of these last two is one is my sister, Davis is a friend from the mission and I'm sure we only have mission/filipino friends in common.)

Just interesting food for though.