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Old 08-02-08, 06:11 PM
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Turns out, it is a small world.

The "small world theory," embodied in the old saw that there are just "six degrees of separation" between any two strangers on Earth, has been largely corroborated by a massive study of electronic communication.

With records of 30 billion electronic conversations among 180 million people from around the world, researchers have concluded that any two people on average are distanced by just 6.6 degrees of separation, meaning that they could be linked by a string of seven or fewer acquaintances
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It's amazing that with over 6.5 billion people in the world, that the theory behind the Kevin Bacon game would hold up.
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this is proved everyday by cellphone fwd's... i can send out a fwd to my family, i'll get the exact same message 4 to 6 months later from friends that i never sent it to... how you ask, well its simply a shockwave effect, everyone is connected to everyone else through friends of friends of family of friends etc etc etc.
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