Stanford University’s Institute for Research in Social Sciences has been investigating how CouchSurfing’s network builds trust amongst members, using anonymous, public data from our system. Diagrams have been produced (taken from a video study) to show how the effects extend beyond CouchSurfing members. It is a ripple effect: even friends of CouchSurfers begin to be drawn into increased interaction with other social circles because of the connecting force of the community. Globalization never extends into our personal and emotional lives. Awareness without connection can play out, paradoxically, as a decrease in openness. And this is why strangers meeting for coffee, or for a homestay, really can be the foundation of change in our world. We can’t all travel the world. But the internet affords each of us the ability to be part of the movement towards a human globalism. It isn’t enough merely to be aware of the wider world. We must learn from one another what it means, in the 21st century, to be a member of the global population Diagrams extracted from video of a study showing the increase and effect of Couchsurfing society being involved with other social circles. © Couchsurfing
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A Radical Change in Perception. Meredith Hutcheson