Mathieu Ouimet showed this in his master's thesis on the networks of public and private organizations working with drug addicts in the Quebec region. The regional health and social services board maintains contact with almost all the other organizations, whereas small public and private organizations have only a few contacts. Ouimet showed that the content of the contact varies as well. It is less demanding and therefore more common for organizations to share information rather than services and joint initiatives. Strong ties, weak ties Relationships with contacts, which indicate the social capital of an individual or group actor, vary in their intensity as well as their content.
Weak ties are just as important a part of an actor's social capital as strong ties, however.
There is also a drawback to strong ties in that they are closed off and inward-looking. If A maintains strong ties with B and C, it is quite likely that B and C have strong ties. The same is true in families and groups of friends. Since we devote a lot of our time to strong ties, the information that circulates is often repetitive and stale. The opposite is true for weak ties.