Facebook shrinks 6 degrees of separation to 4.74

Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 14:30 in Health & Medicine

All 721 million active Facebook users worldwide are connected to each other through an average of just 4.74 friends, friends-of-friends and other intermediaries — significantly fewer than six degrees of separation.

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