Facebook says we’ve all become friends of a friend

fox 61 ^ | 2-4-2016 | cnn wire

[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.

[LonePalm]

I wonder if there is a way to check how interconnected people on Free Republic are.

"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[who knows what evil?]

I don't tweet, I don't text, I'm not on Facebook, and I don't even have a damn cellphone.

Now I need one of those 'GO AWAY' mats for the front porch.

[Trillian]

[Vision]

FB and it's mythical value can go to hell.

[musicman]

(Thanks!!)

[Secret Agent Man]

Doubtful since i am not on fb.