"What jumped out at us was that someone's likelihood of joining really corresponded not to the number of friends represented, but to how many disconnected groups the friends listed on the e-mail fell into," Kleinberg says.
For all its relative tameness, too, Friends represented the quietly subversive notion that the institution of family didn't actually have to include your family members that home, in other words, is what you make it, a way of life that Dowell describes as "very appealing to young people".
But CBS's decision to place Survivor opposite "Friends" represented the strongest challenge yet to NBC's dominance.
Miitomo combines the happiness of seeing your favourite mutual followers' tweets with the joy of seeing your friends represented as Miis, complete with bizarre robotic voices.
She thinks the entertainment industry is becoming slightly more inclusive, but she still rarely sees "anybody like me and my friends represented on television.
I don't see myself and my friends represented.
She also made products that were inclusive, and her models (mainly friends) represented a variety of ages, races and sizes.
Support from friends represented a six-item scale that included responses to questions such as 'I share the same approach to life as my friends do' and 'My friends would take the time to talk about my problems, should I ever want to' (α = 0.751).
The social functioning domain consisted of interpersonal conflict (days of contact and conflict with partner, family, and friends; represented as a proportion of days of conflict over days of contact in the analysis), employment (days employed and days missed from work), and criminal activity (number of days committed crime and number of times daily).
Like the film and almost everything in it, the Humungus and his friends represent the kind of cross-century cultural pollenization favored in comic books.
