Don’t Believe Facebook’s Claim That ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ Is Bogus

Today , a Facebookpostrevealed that each Facebook substance abuser is an average of only 3.57 connections by from all drug user on the land site . That by itself is interesting , but alternatively , Facebook ’s liken it to the popular theory of six degrees of separation — present its user al-Qa’ida and the general universe as two groups that , hell , may as well be considered one in the same !

The post starts with a description ofsix level of detachment : The notion that it lease just six societal connecter to link you with every human on Earth . But Facebook ( which celebratesits 12th birthdaytoday ) disagrees : “ We ’ve crunched the Facebook friend graph and determined that the figure is actually 3.57 . ” At least among the 1.59 billion the great unwashed on Facebook .

permit ’s break it down . First , of course the identification number of connector could be few , if the overall sample is smaller—1.59 billion is n’t the world ’s 7.4 billion ! ( The Facebook situation say , however , that apparently interconnectivity has rise as the user groundwork has increased . ) But still , groups that have more in common will obviously be more machine-accessible . In this case , the great unwashed with enough internet access , free time , and the sheer interest of own a Facebook account .

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Personally , I would ’ve been super concerned if Facebook was using its mathematicians and societal networking wizards to try and debunk the six level possibility ( which is alreadykinda sketchy and flawed ) on a wide of the mark scale , going beyond the boundaries of Facebook and prove that we all are really more attached than we think . And hey , maybe the happy rainbow oneness magic of the internet might actually have something to do with it .

or else , this is Facebook ’s modish attempt to make us cogitate the land site is a canonic part of the human experience .

[ Facebook Research ]

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