Practice question · True or false
A contact who scores high on time spent together is necessarily a strong tie.
Hints
- Granovetter's three dimensions can come apart.
- A daily colleague may share no intimacy and no reciprocity.
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False
Why
False. Tie strength combines time, emotional intensity, intimacy and reciprocal services, and a daily colleague can score high on the first and low on the rest. That is why weak ties matter: they reach into different networks and carry information a close circle already shares.
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