Tony Merevick is Cities News Editor at Thrillist and his average degrees of separation from everyone is 3.19. Sign up here for our daily Thrillist email, and get your fix of the best in food/drink/fun. But even if it's just through Facebook and not exactly IRL, we're all a helluva a lot more closely connected than you would think. You would need to construct a graph where vertices are people and draw edges between pairs of people which are friends/connected. It's important to remember, though, that the Facebook numbers are based on statistical algorithms and only include the people on Facebook, and not the more than 6 billion people on Earth. There is not a lot to add to Santiago Martin Zubieta Ortiz’s answer. Debra is friends with Amy (who is two degrees of separation from you), and Amy is friends with Steve Buscemi, who as a result, is three degrees of separation from you, and so on, and so on. Degrees of Separation is a 2D platform game for two players, each in their own world, who have to cooperate to solve puzzles based on temperature. An easy way to look at it is that your best friend Debra is one degree of separation from you. You probably know the 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon' game, but the whole 'degrees of separation' concept has been around for a while now, and is based on how many people it takes to link you to another person. The post will show your own average degrees of separation from everyone on Facebook, too. As Facebook puts it, that means, 'Each person in the world (at least among the 1.59 billion people active on Facebook) is connected to every other person by an average of three and a half other people.' In the US, the number is even lower, at 3.46 degrees of separation. In fact, the average degrees of separation between any pair of Facebook users has decreased over the last five years, from 3.74 in 2011 to 3.57 today, according to a blog post from the company. As it turns out, the average is much lower than six. While that's cool, and definitely cheesy, what's way cooler is a new Facebook tool that reveals how closely connected you are to every single person on the social network, Kevin Bacon-style, or by degrees of separation. Facebook marked its 12th anniversary on Thursday by gifting everyone's timeline with a nice, customized ' Friends Day' video, featuring photos of you and your good-looking friends over the years.

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