Six Degrees of Separation Revisited

Ed Newman
3 min readFeb 18, 2019

Is social media making the world smaller?

Open shutter light painting by the author.

Most of us have heard of the expression six degrees of separation. Wikipedia describes it this way:

Six degrees of separation (also referred to as the “Human Web”) refers to the idea that, if a person is one step away from each person they know and two steps away from each person who is known by one of the people they know, then

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