Facebook has a great post up from their Data team about relationships between people, and more specifically concluding that the majority of Facebook users are only four degrees of separation away from anyone else on the social networking site.
From the article:
We found that six degrees actually overstates the number of links between typical pairs of users: While 99.6% of all pairs of users are connected by paths with 5 degrees (6 hops), 92% are connected by only four degrees (5 hops). And as Facebook has grown over the years, representing an ever larger fraction of the global population, it has become steadily more connected. The average distance in 2008 was 5.28 hops, while now it is 4.74.
Very fascinating findings! Read the full article for more information and some additional charts that tie everything together. And while you’re there, how about you go ahead and “Like” us on Facebook? Awesome! Thanks.
Courtney – Aww, thanks so much, Chelsea!! We had a great time with y’all and you caprtued our family just perfectly! P.S. You’ll be happy to know that Logan & Paige have recently learned how to do guns up’! Ha!April 3, 2012 6:51 pm