Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a trivia game based on the concept of "the small world phenomenon" and rests on the assumption that anyone involved in the Hollywood, California film industry can be linked through his or her film roles to actor Kevin Bacon within six steps.
This is a play on the "Six Degrees of Separation" concept that refers to the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person on Earth. Well, in an article published in the New York Times titled "Separating You and Me? 4.74 Degrees", Facebook and the University of Milan have successfully proven that the number today is really 4.74.
Experimenting over one month, Milan wrote the algorithms and Facebook supplied the cohort: 721 million Facebook users.
Of course this requires re-evaluating the definition of what a friend exactly is. It also has to take into consideration the average age of Facebook users and that these are people who are computer literate. It still demonstrates how small the world is getting and how intertwined we are all becoming.
This is a play on the "Six Degrees of Separation" concept that refers to the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person on Earth. Well, in an article published in the New York Times titled "Separating You and Me? 4.74 Degrees", Facebook and the University of Milan have successfully proven that the number today is really 4.74.
Experimenting over one month, Milan wrote the algorithms and Facebook supplied the cohort: 721 million Facebook users.
Of course this requires re-evaluating the definition of what a friend exactly is. It also has to take into consideration the average age of Facebook users and that these are people who are computer literate. It still demonstrates how small the world is getting and how intertwined we are all becoming.
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