4.74 Degrees of Separation on Facebook 216
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."
"Research" indeed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Kevin Bacon (Score:4, 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.
Interesting (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...
Re:"Research" indeed (Score:5, 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...
Cool (Score:5, Funny)
I stopped using facebook way before it was cool to stop using it.
this just in (Score:5, Funny)
average is less then the most.
Re:Cool (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Disagree (Score:5, Funny)
More interesting, who is that 0.75 person. A dwarf, a invalid without legs? a hobbit?