Interesting graphs and charts department

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Seven degrees to Kevin Bacon is a being lazy.
Facebook says it's less than 5 hops for the whole world.

Facebook

The idea of ‘six degrees of separation’ -- that any two people are
on average separated by no more than six intermediate connections
-- was first proposed in 1929 in a short story by Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy,
and made popular by the John Guare play and movie, Six Degrees of Separation.

"Using state-of-the-art algorithms developed at the
Laboratory for Web Algorithmics of the Università degli Studi di Milano,
we were able to approximate the number of hops between all pairs of individuals on Facebook.
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).

Of course, the 5,316 members of THE CELLAR, made it much shorter.
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[glatt]

If facebook used their own data, then it makes you wonder what would happen if you got rid of all those people with thousands of "friends" on facebook. Those FB sluts are doing all the connecting. The rest of us with 100 or so friends are probably 20 degrees of separation from the rest of the world instead of only 5 degrees away.

So the world is getting closer primarily due to farmville and mafia wars?

[Lamplighter]

Don't forget Arab Spring... four more hops to Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.