Facebook confirmed the assumption of six handshakes

The University of Milan and Facebook have completed a study on the theory of six handshakes. The social graph was taken as a basis. All Facebook accounts were investigated. As a result, it turned out that two any people are separated not by 6, but by 4.74 levels of communication.

And in the US, by the way, the number of links is less - 4.37 (according to statistics, more than half of Americans over 13 use Facebook).

“Even if you take the most remotely located Facebook user in the Siberian tundra or the Peruvian jungle, your friend’s friend probably knows a friend of their friend,” the researchers note.

Three years ago, Microsoft conducted a similar study on 242 million MSN users who wrote at least one message a month. Their result was then equal to 6.6.

But the study of the VKontakte audience, which was done by shuttie , shows that this result in a more localized network is less, 5.65 users.