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.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox61.com ...
"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)
Now I need one of those 'GO AWAY' mats for the front porch.
Doubtful since i am not on fb.
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