Social networking has reduced the degrees of separation from 6 to ~3.5 Here's the plot for Facebook's social graphpic.twitter.com/taUvOlztlR
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FYI, the original claim was 6 as max distance, not average. Looks like max is about 4.7, still meaningful difference (among those on FB)