Facebook And Yahoo Test 6 Degrees Of Separation
Facebook and Yahoo are studying the social network to test the theory that we are all connected through six degrees of separation.
Facebook and Yahoo are teaming up to test the famous 1960s social experiment alleging there are only six degrees of separation between most people on the planet.
Starting this week, social scientists from each company are studying Facebook’s 750 million members to discover the average number of online connections it takes for people to relay a message to a target – someone they don’t know from around the world.
According to the San Jose Mercury News, each person on Facebook has an average of 130 friends.
Facebook describes each person’s web of connections as a the social graph.
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