Instant messaging world confirms separation

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Instant messaging world confirms separation

A social graph derived from billions of instant messages validates folklore that there are about six degrees of separation between any two strangers on the planet.

 

[Syndyre]

Interesting but people with IM and internet access can expect to be more connected than a nomad in the Sahara desert.

 

[lilGr]

Interesting but people with IM and internet access can expect to be more connected than a nomad in the Sahara desert.

looool

Yea , Ive seen this somewhere on facebook :\

 

[zamicro]

Very interesting. I just sometimes wonder why the Americans think of themselves as the world. Sending a letter from one side to the other of your country does not mean the world is connected by 6 degrees of separation, but rather the US is connected by 7 degrees of separation...

 

[Slooth]

Very interesting. I just sometimes wonder why the Americans think of themselves as the world. Sending a letter from one side to the other of your country does not mean the world is connected by 6 degrees of separation, but rather the US is connected by 7 degrees of separation...

They are the world champions of American Football after all

 

[Amerikanse]

Interesting but people with IM and internet access can expect to be more connected than a nomad in the Sahara desert.

I'm two degrees separated from Nomads in North Africa.