https://blog.polaris64.net/tags/social-media/ Recent content in Social-Media on Polaris64's blog Hugo en-uk Mon, 24 Aug 2020 12:34:42 +0100 https://blog.polaris64.net/post/4-point-74-degrees-of-separation/ Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.polaris64.net/post/4-point-74-degrees-of-separation/ We all know that Facebook is pretty popular to say the least, but new research by Facebook and the University of Milan now finds that instead of the popular conception that there are six degrees of separation between us, there are actually 4.74. The original research for the “six degrees of separation” finding comes from research published by the psychologist Stanley Milgram (also known for the infamous Milgram Experiment) in 1967 who used 296 volunteers in his research.