The popular theory goes that any person is connected to. It connects people who are far apart, but also has the dense local structure we see in small communities. DEGREES OF SEPARATION IS AVAILABLE NOW Unleash the powers of hot and cold and embark on a journey with Ember & Rime in the visually sensational world of Degrees of Separation. The term Six Degrees of Separation is a popular term used to describe the small world theory. ( Microsoft researchers a few years before social networking exploded, found that 6 degrees of separation was about right and a Stanford Scientist won a Microsoft fellowship recently for his research into predicting your next Facebook friends.)įacebook and the University of Milan, which together studied both how many friends people have and how many degrees of separation there are between people in the world, concluded: "In these two works, we show how the Facebook social network is at once both global and local. And Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, has 2.92 degrees of separation.
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Within the United States, most people are separated by 3 degrees (or 4 hops), and according to Facebook, some 84% of connections are between people in the same country. Facebook notes that founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is connected to Facebook strangers by 3.17 degrees. The average person is connected to every other person by an average of 3.57 steps. The number of hops between any two Facebook users, based on an algorithm developed at the University of Milan, was 5.28 in 2008 and now is down to 4.74, according to Facebook. So this post is mostly to show you that Facebook reports that people are, on average, only separated by 3.57 people on their platform. Since Facebook swamps you with invitations to friend people who you do not know, I suspect the Facebook degree of separation may be less. Estimated average degrees of separation between all people on Facebook.
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Citing what it calls the largest social networking studies ever, Facebook says the common notion of six degrees of separation between people knowing other people has become outdated.įacebook's data team writes in a blog post that the degrees of separation between any two people in the world has been seriously shrinking over the past 3 years as Facebook membership has boomed to 721 million active users (with an average of 190 friends), accounting for 10%-plus of the world's population.