In my room, in a corner, I have a map of people I know, with lines drawn to other people I know, with more lines connected to people they know who know people I know. Half of these people don’t know each other, but they have a line connecting them to someone else who knows them, who knows their friend, who knows their ex, who knows the first person.

I’m not a big fan of most video games, but one of the games that I absolutely love is the Sims 4. I first started playing it on the Xbox, but quickly became bored of it because of one simple problem: The game was ugly.