World is Shrinking, We are Just 3.5 Degrees Apart: Facebook
NEW YORK: You must have heard about the famous "six degrees of separation" theory that everyone on the planet is connected to everyone else by six other people. Facebook has just upended this theory, saying that world is more closely connected than you might think.
After studying 1.59 billion people active on the social networking website, the team determined that the number is actually 3.57 -- meaning thereby that there is actually "three-and-a-half degrees of separation" where each person in the world is connected to every other person by an average of three-and-a-half other people.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is 3.17 degrees of separation from all Facebook users.
According to researchers, our collective "degrees of separation" have shrunk over the past five years.
In 2011, ...