Here's a visualisation of exactly the kind of 'small-world' effect you are talking about:
Each circle is a person, and a line between two circles represents a friendship. The larger the circle, the more friends someone has. Being well connected can be extremely valuable: to find out more, you can check out my post on how understanding the power of graph theory can help you to grow the Steemit network.
Thank you very much. I LOVE it. Just upvoted your older post and followed you. We'll definitely chat again.
@sunjata we meet again
Your graph proves that quantity of connections gives most to influence quality of your vote. It's a bit lopsided, no?