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  • It’s No Longer Six Degrees Of Separation Between You And Anyone Else In The World – Look

    05 Feb 2016 by Sloane Hunter in Facebook, Lifestyle, Nature, Social
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    Facebook really is out to ruin people’s lives. In it’s latest attempt, it shows that the whole six degrees of separation thing isn’t all that accurate. Well, now, the number has changed to around 3.57 degrees, meaning that any random stranger can be linked through a chain of fewer than four people.

    Great. Now that whole, “Hey, I know this person” and “Let’s find out who we know in common” conversation is going to be delivered with even more determination.

    Here’s a graph that might interest you:

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    Basically, I figured, the more people you know / more friends you have on Facebook, the less your degree of separation. But listen to this: This stat only applies to those peeps logging onto Facebook and that only amounts to around 1.59 billion people (and think about how many fake accounts are out there) compared to the world population 7 billion people. Facebook has this to say:

    We’ve grown more interconnected, thus shortening the distance between any two people in the world.

    So yeah, Facebook is maybe jumping the game just a little, but they also probably think the world is Facebook. Anyways, check out your degrees of Facebook separation here, on their research blog. Here’s mine:

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    Better than the employees of the world Facebook:

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    [source: huffingtonpost]

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