Posted on 02/04/2016 1:52:11 PM PST by Citizen Zed
Facebook launched a dozen years ago, and to celebrate it's released some mind-boggling new statistics.
Each of Facebook's 1.59 billion users are now connected to every other user by an average of just three and a half degrees of separation.
Consider that not so long ago, conventional wisdom had it that every person on the planet were separated by six degrees.
Maybe that's why the company calls its February 4 birthday "Friends Day."
Facebook's data science team crunched the numbers on the social network's friendship graph. The conclusion: The average "degree of separation" between a single user and any other person on Facebook's massive network is just 3.57.
That means everyone "is connected to every other person by an average of three and a half other people," Facebook's blog post says.
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Stupidbook.
Well, their analysis is flawed because I’m not on their damn network. Nobody’s getting to me!
Me neither.
Me neither.
Well, I guess that links us by default. LOL
Even if you are on Facebook, not everybody there is your “friend”.
Some pretty slyly nasty folks still get on there from time to time. Technically, you COULD “unfriend” them, but their bile still keeps seeping through.
The body of Facebook is riddled with several cancers and nasty intractable infections.
What’s my “Bacon Number”?
“What’s my “Bacon Number”?”
I’m two steps away from Kevin Bacon.
Twice.
All? I ‘feel’ so left out.
At least they didn’t use taxpayer funds to do this ever so vital research.
**The average “degree of separation” between a single user and any other person on Facebook’s massive network is just 3.57. **
So half are greater than 3.7 and half are more than 3.7. What is the standard deviation?
FreeRepublic has a good sized group on facebook. Over 5,000 members.
well....except those who will never be on FB......
They can take their Facebook, and stick it where the sun don’t shine. I’ve never had an account, and I don’t tweet either.
Facebook is the glitchiest piece of crap ever.
LOLOLOL
Me either.
That’s great!
Facebook numbers like all the social media sites inflate the numbers.
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