#4 DEGREES OF SEPARATION MOVIE#
Tomorrow, Paul is meeting up with his father, who is in town directing a movie of "Cats". He was a friend of the Kittredges' children, who are attending Harvard more importantly, he's the son of actor and Director Sidney Poitier.
The young man, Paul Poitier (Will Smith), had just arrived in the city when he was mugged outside their building, he sported a minor knife wound to the abdomen. They relay a story to their friends and acquaintances that becomes legendary over time: their encounter with a young black stranger who came stumbling upon their front door one evening as they were courting Geoffrey Miller (Sir Ian McKellen), an important investor who could make them wealthy beyond their dreams. Their prized possession is a double-sided Kandinsky: one side represents control the other, chaos. “As Facebook has grown over the years, representing an ever larger fraction of the global population, it has become even more connected.New Yorkers Louisa "Ouisa" Kittredge (Stockard Channing) and John Flanders "Flan" Kittredge (Donald Sutherland) are upper-class private art dealers, pretentious, but compassionate. “It connects people who are far apart, but also has the dense local structure we see in small communities. “The studies show how the Facebook social network is at once both global and local.
Marlow added: “When we limit our analysis to a single country, be it the US, Sweden, Italy, or any other, we find that the world gets even smaller, and most pairs of people are only separated by 3 degrees (4 hops). The average distance in 2008 was 5.28 hops to one another, wherease now it is only 4.74 hops. It even spawned the popular trivia game ‘Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon’ where people attempted to connect themselves to the Hollywood superstar.Īnd as more and more users sign up to Facebook, the connections between people have shrunk. The infamous ‘six degrees of separation’ theory - known as the ‘small world experiment’ - was popularised in the 1960s, and claimed any two people in the world are separated by only a small number of intermediate connections. “While 99.6% of all pairs of users are connected by paths with 5 degrees (6 hops), 92% are connected by only four degrees (5 hops).” “In our studies, performed earlier this year, we examined all 721 million active Facebook users (more than 10% of the global population), with 69 billion friendships among them. On a blog post detailing the findings, Cameron Marlow, in-house research scientist at Facebook, said: “We found that the degrees of separation between any two Facebook users is smaller than the commonly cited six degrees, and has been shrinking over the past three years as Facebook has grown. The study - the largest social network study ever - was carried out in collaboration with researchers at Università degli Studi di Milano. That means that a Facebook user in the depths of the Siberian tundra or the Amazon rainforest is probably no more than a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend away from you. FORGET the famous six degrees of separation - we are now only four people away from being friends, according to Facebook.Ī study of the relationships between 721million users on the social networking website revealed that 92% of users are only four connections away from each other.
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