Jonathan Farrington’s Blog: ‘Five or six degrees of separation’ – So what?

Jonathan Farrington’s Blog: ‘Five or six degrees of separation’ – So what?

So, every individual in the whole world is potentially only five or six contact steps away.

This ‘five or six degrees of separation’ shows that even an entire population of over five billion people is still highly accessible.

So what?

For practical purposes, we don’t necessarily want or need to meet millions, or even thousands of people in different organisations, age groups, religions, professions, cultures or places.