If you’ve played the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, you’re gonna have to change that 3 Degrees of Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg says that chances are pretty high you are a friend of a friend.
Six Degrees became popular with actor Kevin Bacon but it’s actually been around since it was first suggested by Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy in 1929. The theory states that everyone on Earth is only six introductions away from meeting everyone else on Earth.
However, Facebook has done the research to show that there is actually only 3 degrees of separation between everyone.
Research from the Facebook suggests that for the 1.59 billion active users of Facebook, there are only 3.57 degrees of separation, on average, between everyone on the social network. Facebook says the majority of users have between 2.9 and 4.2 degrees of separation. (Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s separation number is 3.17, while chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg’s score is 2.92.) You can see the Facebook research, along with the degrees of separation the company has calculated for you.
An earlier study, conducted in 2011, stated there were about 3.74 degrees of separation between Facebook users. At that time, the site had about 721 million members, meaning that as the site has grown, nearly doubling its active user base between the two studies, its users have become roughly 5% more connected.
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