The old aphorism about six degrees of separation may not apply any more, Facebook research Lars Backstrom reported.

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And mostly you go to soak up that rare "Six Degrees of Separation" from reality you can't find anywhere else.

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By "plausible, " I am not talking about six degrees of separation, or that al Qaeda reads in the paper about an attack it had nothing to do with and starts the Allahu Akbar!

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And the fact is that pretty much all of us are indeed within two or so degrees of separation with such a super connected person: thus the only six degrees of separation between any two people.

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