The six degrees of separation that began with 296 volunteers in 1967 have narrowed to 4.74 degrees, thanks to the 721 million people on Facebook. In 1967, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram started an ...

Has Facebook, with its great size and social greasing, shattered the old "Six Degrees of Separation" theory? Citing a joint study, Facebook indeed claims to have brought people (only those with Web ...

Facebook and Yahoo are teaming up to test the famous "six degrees of separation" theory. Launched this week, the game-like experiment is based on the famous "Small World" study conducted by Harvard ...

Using algorithms, Facebook debunked the "six-degrees of separation" theory, determining that we are now a mere 4.74 degrees away from another human anywhere on the planet. The findings were in ...

Facebook has tested its 'four degrees of separation' theory with an online study. The social networking giant claims that we are "four clicks" always from the rest of the online population, citing ...

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 ...

Author Michelle R. Donovan debunks as myth the six-degrees-of-separation theory. You remember the concept: A person can connect to any other person in the world through a network of just six people.

According to a new study conducted, opens new tab by Facebook and researchers at an Italian university, 92 percent Facebook’s users are connected by four degrees of separation – that is, a friend of ...