There’s a lot being webbed and blogged about the Microsoft six degrees research at the moment. It seems that we might all be linked by 6 degrees of separation after all. The research looked at 30bn instant messages in one month in 2006. Apparently the sample was linked by seven or fewer acquaintances. With such a large sample it seems unlikely that this will just be regarded as folk-lore or myth in the future.
In New Zealand I would think that we are linked by three degrees of separation. At times it feels just like a big village.
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