Owing to the impact of today’s social networking and rapid developments in technology, American psychologist Stanley Milgram’s notion of six degrees of separation has been reduced to three, proclaims O2.
O2 recently conducted a study to examine the effects of new forms of communication technology on how connected people are. It revealed that outside people’s main three networks of family, friends and work most are part of five main ‘interest’ networks, within which an average person is connected by just three degrees. The study affirms that the growth in the number and quality of connections now available to all is key to the reduction in the number of degrees of separation. Email and mobile phones were found to have the most significant impact on facilitating this reduction, making it easier than ever before to make connections and build networks of contacts.
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