E-Mail Can Reveal Your Friend Hierarchy

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @07:35AM from the add-them-to-the-list dept.

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."

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Fast Reply by alphatel · 2011-11-30 07:35 · Score: 5, Insightful

My fastest reply is always to the person who will make me the most money. My friends can wait.

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1. Re:Fast Reply by Anonymous Coward · 2011-11-30 08:04 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
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Is this an article from 2005? by jtownatpunk.net · 2011-11-30 07:42 · Score: 5, Insightful

I don't communicate with friends via email.