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It turns out that Microsoft has used a very large-scale analysis of IM traffic to 'prove' that the people are really 6 degrees of separation from everyone else in the world -- or, to be specific, 6.6 degrees.

With records of 30 billion electronic conversations among 180 million people from around the world, researchers have concluded that any two people on average are distanced by just 6.6 degrees of separation, meaning that they could be linked by a string of seven or fewer acquaintances.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080103718.html

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