This theory captivated millions of mathematicians, sociologists, and physicists and also laid the founding stone of the first online social network. In one of his stories titled Chains, he said that with growing communication and travel, the friendship network would grow irrespective of the distance between two humans.Īnd with a growing social network, the social distance would shrink immensely.Īll the people on the planet could be connected to one another by 5 or fewer people. In 1929, Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy published a volume of short stories named Everything is Different. The math says that in 6 steps you would be connected with 50 6, or 15.62 billion people. Going by the numbers, the idea looks pretty plausible.Īssume that you know 50 people or have 50 friends and these 50 friends of yours know 50 others who are not your friends, and so on. In a world of 7 billion people, it seems hard to believe that the Six Degrees of Separation theory contends that we are all connected to each other by six or fewer acquaintances.įor example, there are, at most, six people standing between you and Tom Cruise or President Obama (or Trump if you lean that way).
Do you know was the first social network site which allowed the user to create a profile and connect?
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