The theory of homophily definitely applies to group of college friends. Most of my friends favorite type of movie or TV show is comedies. The summer after my freshman year, 3 of my favorite comedies came out: Pineapple Express, Step Brothers, and Tropic Thunder. When I got back from the summer break my friends were discussing which movies were our favorites over the summer, and all of us had gone to see these three, and most had seen Step Brothers more than once in the theater. One of the things that has kept my group of friends close knit through school is our sense of humor, and half of the words that come out of our mouths are movie quotes.
Another thing that we share is our taste in music. Most of my roommates (including myself) that I was assigned with in freshman year were big fans of rock music and played some sort of instrument. One of my friends had even gone to the same Allman Brothers/Tom Petty tour the summer before school.
There is lake in the town where I'm from, and every summer there is a large party in one of the bays with thousands of people that come from all over to celebrate the end of the summer. My roommate came up for that weekend to hang out. I had a mix CD in my car of all the hits that I was listening to at the time and we played the CD all weekend while we were hanging around. When he went back home to Boston, I hopped a ride with him. When we got in his car, he threw on one of his mix CDs, and 10/15 songs on his CD were the same as the ones that were on mine. Neither of us had talked about what music we'd been listening to, and we had a pretty good laugh.
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