Average Of 4.74 Users Separate Everyone On Facebook
The growth in Facebook's membership has made everyone closer than six degrees of separation.
The phrase “six degrees of separation” became synonymous with social media back when Friendster was cool, but now it turns out that people are actually more closely connected on Facebook.
Make that 4.74 degrees of separation, according to Facebook’s data team. That’s the average number of people separating any two individuals on the social network.
The data team examined how many friends users have and determined that as the total number of Facebook users has risen, the average number of degrees of separation has gone down.
The fact that users’ friends are likely to be of similar ages and mostly from the same countries also factored into the research.
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