Social Networking Madness
July 14th, 2008A basis for the theory of social networking was a study performed by Stanley Milgram in 1967 that established that any two random United States citizens are connected to one another by a series of six intermediaries, on the average. This idea was made more popular by the play and subsequent movie, ?Six Degrees of Separation?, as well as the television show ?Six Degrees?. Current Internet experiments continue to explore this concept, such as the Ohio State Electronic Small World Project and Columbia”””’’s Small World Project. These experiments currently confirm that five to seven degrees of separation are sufficient to connect two people through the Internet. This also serves to confirm the potential effectiveness of Internet social networks to build new connections between people.
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