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4.74 Degrees of Separation on Facebook

Posted by samzenpus on from the closer-than-you-think dept.

First time accepted submitter perryizgr8 writes "Facebook Data Team has taken all the friends data of everyone on Facebook and analyzed it, finding out the shortest distance between every two persons. They can now confidently say that the average degree of separation between any two humans is 4.74, not six as previously claimed by various entities."

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  1. "Research" indeed by Kittenman · · Score: 5, Funny

    A good promo for Facebook ... gets it in the news without mentioning 'security' Dammit, I just did.

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    1. Re:"Research" indeed by hellkyng · · Score: 4, Funny

      Right! All this wasted research when anyone on 4chan could easily have told you how many friend requests it would take to find the neighbors hot daughter who just went off to college and joined a sorority...

  2. Re:Kevin Bacon by sco08y · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wanna know my link to Kevin Bacon. Do you think FB would tell all of us how we get back to him?

    Facebook can't, because ever since the introduction of CCTV and police cruiser dashboard cams, they've had to rename it the Six Degrees of Lindsey Lohan.

  3. Interesting by koan · · Score: 4, Funny

    So if you're on Facebook you're only 4.74 degrees from some maniacal jihadist, right-wing Christian extremist or a pedobear...

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  4. Cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I stopped using facebook way before it was cool to stop using it.

    1. Re:Cool by Ravon+Rodriguez · · Score: 5, Funny

      I use Facebook ironically.

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  5. this just in by geekoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    average is less then the most.

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  6. Re:Disagree by leuk_he · · Score: 4, Funny

    More interesting, who is that 0.75 person. A dwarf, a invalid without legs? a hobbit?