Facebook have carried out some deep data analysis on how all of their active users are interlinked with each other, for a long time it’s been said that there are 6 degrees of separation between you and someone else. Meaning that you, reading this, could have a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend who is also a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of one of my friends. Sounds nuts but now Facebook claim that the link is much smaller and is only just over 3 ‘hops’ away. You can get the full gory details over at this BBC article.
I don’t fully buy this as there are people our there who friend hoard and add anyone and everyone as a friend, I’ve even heard of people exchanging names while queuing for toilets in night clubs then adding each other on Facebook as friends when they get home steaming, never to be seen or heard from again.
Never the less the data analysis is still interesting and now that Facebook has over 800 million active users logging in at least once a month it
will be cool to see what other data they can mine from their immense data farms.
Source : BBC
