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Anonymous Coward User ID: 5841128 United States 11/22/2011 02:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Forget "six degrees of separation": The real number is 4.74. Quoting: Proskiracer Facebook's data analysis team has released the results of what it calls the largest social-networking study ever and discovered that only 4.74 people separate strangers from each other. That's largely thanks to Facebook itself, of course, as well as other modern social networks. [link to www.foxnews.com] that is pretty interesting - the number is growing smaller, but yet our population grows larger. Wish there was a way to scientifically measure this for a true number. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 5841128 United States 11/23/2011 07:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I still think its cool, and cooler it made its way to MSM. I know many of us can count 4 degrees of separation between us and people in DC and some in hollywood.... not too sure about everyone on the planet though....still seems a bit far fetched to imagine.....which is what gives it the cool factor. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 79210911 United States 05/13/2023 01:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Forget "six degrees of separation": The real number is 4.74. Quoting: Proskiracer Facebook's data analysis team has released the results of what it calls the largest social-networking study ever and discovered that only 4.74 people separate strangers from each other. That's largely thanks to Facebook itself, of course, as well as other modern social networks. [link to www.foxnews.com] I actually worked on an algorithm and reached almost the same conclusion for a Trig class back in college |