Six handshakes are replaced by three

It seems the time has come to revise the old concept of the Six Degrees of Separation (Six degrees of separation), which we traditionally call the Six Handshakes . A recent study of the mobile operator O2 shows that in the modern world strangers are at a distance from each other at much shorter "distances" than ever before.

According to the analysis of the collected information, the average person in modern society is connected by three “handshakes” with a completely unfamiliar person within a certain social group. They are, classically, three: family, friends and work.
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O2 asked people of three different age groups (18-25, 35-45, 55+) to make contact with a random person from anywhere (another country / continent) using only personal connections. Combining their common interests, the participants were able to “log on” to a random person during 3 “handshakes”.

For the first time the term “Six degrees of separation” (Six handshakes) was used by Stanley Milgram in 1967. With this phrase, he meant that the connection between a random person and a random person within the framework of planet Earth is possible through 6 investigative connections. In the modern world, of course, this rule no longer works - we are all victims of active Internet socialization, but no one could have imagined that the number of “handshakes” had halved.