{"id":26370,"date":"2016-02-07T17:27:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T17:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.famifi.com\/oc\/new-research-shows-kevin-bacon-is-probably-your-friends-friends-friend\/"},"modified":"2016-02-07T17:27:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T17:27:42","slug":"new-research-shows-kevin-bacon-is-probably-your-friends-friends-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytoday.com\/family\/new-research-shows-kevin-bacon-is-probably-your-friends-friends-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"New research shows Kevin Bacon is probably your friend’s friend’s friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/head>

Everyone in the world is one step closer to being personal acquaintances with Kevin Bacon.<\/p>\n

The idea that anyone in the world has a connection to any other person by six degrees or less<\/a> has been around for almost a century. The theory was made more popular when people used it as a game<\/a> to connect other actors or themselves to Kevin Bacon<\/a>. But now, according to a blog post from Facebook, six degrees may be too high a number.<\/a><\/p>

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After taking every user's Facebook friends list and crunching the numbers, researchers say a more accurate number would be around three and a half degrees.<\/p>\n

Pick any person on Facebook, and you are somehow connected to him or her through less than four people.<\/p>\n

\"Imagine a person with 100 friends,\" the blog post read. \"If each of his friends also has 100 friends, then the number of friends-of-friends will be 10,000. If each of those friends-of-friends also has 100 friends then the number of friends-of-friends-of-friends will be 1,000,000.\"<\/p>\n

The number of connected people grows rapidly the more degrees away you are. And most Facebook users have more than 100 friends, so even that example is a modest one.<\/p>\n\n

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The explanation of how exactly they came up with the numbers is a bit more complicated, but luckily, they can find out your degrees of separation for you<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This just goes to show, the world really is smaller than we think.<\/p>\n

Time to put an extra chair at the dinner table, just in case your old pal Kev Bacon decides to drop in.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>

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