Six degrees of separation

They say theories are derived by geniuses and most of them are boring.Well,what if I say to you, that there is a theory that says that you are a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of Barrack Obama?


What?! you and me...? blehh

or the Pope,the Queen, Osamma bin Laden or any other person for that matter of fact.
How u ask me?

Its something which is known as the Six Degrees of Separation.It refers to the theory that any two random people in this world are on average six steps away from each other, or easier said, you could be a six degree friend or less than that to any other random person in the planet.And yes,it includes the terrorists.it includes the Pakistanis,im not suggesting anything.It includes everybody in the planet.

It was originally thought of by this guy Frigyes Karinthy, who's brilliant idea even made it to become a play, which was so good that it was nominated for the Pulitzer Price and later a movie featuring a very young Will Smith,which was also so good that it helped actress Stockard Channing win the Oscar's in 1994.

The theory was even researched by Researchers at Microsoft, who studied records of 30 billion electronic conversations among 180 million people in various countries.They figured out that any two strangers are, on average, distanced by precisely 6.6 degrees of separation. In other words, putting fractions to one side, you are linked by a string of seven or fewer acquaintances to Madonna, the Dalai Lama and the Queen.

I beg your pardon,is this even possible?

Well Your Majesty it is, they even found a way through your facebook account, a few years back, some dude by the name of Karl Bunyan came up with a facebook platform application named "Six Degrees", which calculated the degrees of separation between different people. Using about 5.8 million user accounts,the average separation for all users of the application was found to be 5.73 degrees.So, if the Queen is really on fb, she just got owned.haha.

and guess what, its so awesome that there is a trivia game based on this concept that links any actor in Hollywood to Kevin Bacon through six degrees or less ( a degree is calculated from any movie where the actor has played a role with or alongside Kevin Bacon).Thus,creathing the game named.....yeap,u guessed it..........Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon!

So, the next time you feel useless, think again, at least you know somebody famous like Slash or Santana through 6 people,isn't that alone good enough to make yourself feel good......?!!