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Because even back in the 1920’s, six degrees of separation was close enough – and now in 2015, two degrees is a claustrophobic’s worst nightmare. If Frigyes Karinthy was a) not dead and b) living in Toronto, he would piss himself in shock. And now, everyone is too cool to appropriately behave around Frangers, so instead, they pretend like they don’t know them even though they do. To make things even more complex between the FOFs, Frangers and the Friendcest (Friend-incest) epidemic, people became too cool to introduce themselves in person. Then, it crept into long-standing friendship circles: FOF’s shared photos of other FOF’s hanging out, and everything started feeling like friend incest. It got really weird. How are you really supposed to introduce yourself to someone you’ve followed online but never met – in a cool, non-chalant way that’s not stalkerish? This became crystal clear when Frangers began to see each other at parties, when suddenly everyone in Toronto became tied together by two degrees of separation.
#TWO DEGREES OF SEPARATION HOW TO#
We drew a blank forgot how to interact with one another at bars, on the streetcar and west side parties. Unwritten Franger social cues became a no-name white bag of mystery candies. That’s when introductions became a little (more) awkward. Who wouldn’t want to be friends with a FOF named Yolanda? She has bleach-blonde corn rows, a French Bulldog named “Felix” and a boyishly-cute husband who’s insanely photogenic (even in scary dark, unfiltered lighting). The Internet wants us to be best friends.
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They haven’t actually met in person yet, but that doesn’t matter. To be clear, Frangers are the secondhand FOF’s with similar passtimes: fashionably layered outfits, adorable dogs, selfies, funny captions and food porn.
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Shortly after the famous FOFs frenzy of 2010, “Frangers” (Friend-Strangers) became a thing: strangers who follow each other, but haven’t actually met yet. Suddenly, the world physically downsized into a big interconnected pile of friends of friends (FOFs) that tagged, poked and liked each other online. While this was a fine and dandy idea during the Roaring Twenties, it was actually a pretty accurate picture before social networks connected the dots and Instagram became the hub of misunderstood teens, social appearances and artsy-fartsy photo albums. In 1929, before Rob Ford, Diet Coke and jeggings, the Hungarian poet Frigyes Karinthy set forth a theory that every person is connected via six people.