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The original "six degrees" finding, (published in 1967 by psychologist Stanley Milgram,) was drawn from only 296 volunteers who were asked to send a message by postcard, through friends and then friends of friends, to a specific person in a Boston suburb.
The new research used a much bigger cohort: 721 million Facebook users, more than one-tenth of the world’s population."
Why should you care?
“People can share ideas with only a few jumps to a large portion of the world’s population and with even fewer steps to the entire population of a nation.”
We have more influence, on more people, than ever before.
For good, or evil.
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