In the 1960s Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment to investigate the connectedness of people in American society. His findings demonstrated that humans are rather well connected with each other. In his experiment he sent out letters to individuals without an adress (except that the person was located in Boston) to self selected participants, asking them to pass the letter along to someone who might know the person. On average, the letter reached its' destination after changing hands with 6 people.
The study will now be replicated by the use of facebook. It will be interesting to see whether social networking technology has made us more connected to each other, or if 6 degrees of separation model (on average it takes 6 people to connect from one to another) is still valid. http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/facebook-yahoo-test-six-degrees-theory-134204
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