Facebook brings the world three-and-a-bit degrees of separation closer
by Elle Hunt from Technology | The Guardian on (#12Z4A)
The social media platform used its friend graph to calculate the degrees separating its 1.6 billion members and found it is as few as 3.57 people
It's a smaller world after all: Facebook has challenged the conventional wisdom that there are six degrees of separation between everyone on the planet.
Its number-crunching in commemoration of "Friends day" suggests Kevin Bacon might be as much as 40.5% closer than previously thought.
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