In the New York Times Magazine, Clive Thompson writes an extensive article on Christakis’ and Fowler’s user of the Framingham Study to examine contagion processes of social behaviors. The article includes interviews with a variety of social networks researchers and a good analysis and critique of Christakis’ and Fowler’s conclusions. The article states: “IT’S TEMPTING TO think, confronted by Christakis and Fowler’s work, that the best way to improve your life is to simply cut your ties to people with bad behavior. And obviously this is possible; people change their friends often, sometimes abruptly. But reshaping your social network may be more challenging than altering your behavior. There’s also compelling evidence in their research that we do not have as much control as we might think we do over the way we’re linked to other people: our location in a social network, say, or how many of our friends know each other.” To read the full article, click here.