Rating:

Sure it doesn’t do much, but I’ll be damned if it isn’t the coolest looking Facebook app I’ve seen this week. Nexus is simple in premise, yet completely elegant in execution — that said, it probably wasn’t the simplest of apps to develop.

Essentially the app, which exists primarily outside of Faceboo, creates a full radial graph of your social network. The graph is held together by lines that plot the the relationships between your connections. So contacts every nuanced correlation between the people of your list is plotted and linked on a graph.

The problem is that, given the enormity of most peoples’ networks, these graphs can be rather convoluted. Nexus resolves this but pointing out connection nodes when you highlight a person. This feature can separate the graph in interesting tangents.

My hometown connections, for instance, are entirely isolated in their own little graph. There is a complete detachment from the network of my current life, which raises an interesting perspective. If you’ve existed in multiple environments, you might have several of these separate graphs, each one representing a separate life; another you.

So at the very least, I have to give Nexus some credit for inspiring some peculiar introspection. So try it out, maybe you’ll learn something about yourself.

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