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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. Skewed Data? by Sharkyfour · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wouldn't this be skewed by all the people who befriend random strangers to increase the size of the Mafia's or farm friends?

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  2. So overall, it is 6... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    6 degrees of separation, not limited to any single medium

    Just under 5 for any two facebook'ees
    but to get to anyone not on facebook, you'd have to go one extra hop

  3. Re:Disagree by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You also don't know anyone with a Facebook account, and no one you know knows anyone with a Facebook account, and so on? I'm not sure you understand what they are talking about, you read "Facebook" and just wanted to tell people you don't use it.

  4. no it's not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    it is 4.74 + 1; think about it...

    1. Re:no it's not by Tomato42 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      4.75 + 1 in my book is very close to the "old, frowned up, value" of six...

  5. Re:Disagree by rapidreload · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Lemme guess, you don't have a TV either but want to tell the world regardless?

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  6. Re:Disagree by fisted · · Score: 5, Insightful

    yeah, so antisocial not to hand over all data to facebook.

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