I’m running a little social experiment amongst some of my friends in hopes of answering a simple question:

If you ran into random Facebook friends everyday, how many could you greet by name?

To try and gather some data on this little question I have thrown together a little Facebook application called Acquaintances. The concept is pretty simple: aggregate a random collection of photos of a random Facebook friend and ask if the user can produce any part of the “friend’s” name (first, last, or full).

My hypothesis is that many people would have an awkward “Hey…. you” moment to around a third of their friends. This is a pretty conservative estimation, especially amongst my college friends who have well over a thousand friends.

URL: Acquaintances