load01 11/23/2011

• BBC News - Facebook users average 3.74 degrees of separation

  There are on average 3.74 degrees of separation between any one Facebook user and another, a study suggests.
  
  The number of degrees represents the number of people in a friendship chain, excluding the people at either end.
  
  Or, as the authors put it: "When considering another person in the world, a friend of your friend knows a friend of their friend."
  
  The study was carried out in May and involved all of the social network's active members.
  
  Facebook defines a user as active if they have logged on at least once over the past 28 days.

  tags: technology

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