{"id":5489,"date":"2016-02-25T16:21:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T16:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5489"},"modified":"2016-02-12T16:22:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T16:22:07","slug":"linked-three-and-a-half-degrees-of-separation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/02\/25\/linked-three-and-a-half-degrees-of-separation\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Three and a half degrees of separation&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.facebook.com\/blog\/three-and-a-half-degrees-of-separation\/\">via Facebook Research<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Imagine a person with 100 friends. If each of his friends also has 100 friends, then the number of friends-of-friends will be 10,000. If each of those friends-of-friends also has 100 friends then the number of friends-of-friends-of-friends will be 1,000,000. Some of those friends may overlap, so we need to filter down to the unique connections. We&#8217;re only two hops away and the number is already big. In reality this number grows even faster since most people on Facebook have more than 100 friends. We also need to do this computation 1.6 billion times; that is, for every person on Facebook.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can visit there to see where you fall in the spectrum. While most people have 100 FB friends, most people also don\u2019t know all of their friends in real life. Facebook is a virtual world so you might collect more friends than you actually know. I had 1500 friends at one point. I didn\u2019t know all of them. I think people like me skew that figure to be much lower than the well-documented 6-degrees of separation. FB says it\u2019s more like 3 degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Facebook Research: Imagine a person with 100 friends. If each of his friends also has 100 friends,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T01:58:56Z","apple_news_api_id":"ffc16394-b01d-43b2-a570-aea5323e5757","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T01:58:56Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A_8FjlLAdQ7KlcK6lMj5XVw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1qx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5333,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/01\/21\/linked-ted-cruz-using-firm-that-harvested-data-on-millions-of-unwitting-facebook-users\/","url_meta":{"origin":5489,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Ted Cruz using firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting Facebook users&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"January 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via The Guardian: The academic used Amazon\u2019s crowdsourcing marketplace Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to access a large pool of Facebook profiles, hoovering up tens of thousands of individuals\u2019 demographic data \u2013 names, locations, birthdays, genders \u2013 as well as their Facebook \u201clikes\u201d, which offer a range of personal insights. 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