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4.74 Degrees of Separation on Facebook

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @10:43AM 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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Re:Interesting by Anonymous Coward · 2011-11-23 11:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Sounds pretty much like Thanksgiving dinner at the in-laws to me.