Playwright John Guare used the term “six degrees”.Notion that we are only few steps apart. Series of experiments by Stanley Milgram in the 60. Experiment/Letter/Target living in another city. Results: Median of six steps. In order for this to work the participants need to have at least a common interest, random connections would fail.Researchers found the average length of the shortest path between any two people on this system to be around 6.6
A rumor a political message or a link to an online video are all examples of information that can spread from person to person, contagiously, in the style of an epidemic. Provide samples: Iran, Honduras, Michael Jackson. This behaviors can easily be studied now. Before it was with small groups or 10 or 100, now it can be done with millions. These social platforms provide all that information, they collect the data. As the social networks grow, the diameters shrink. We can see a human interaction that allows a development and evaluation of social phenomena at large scales and to use these models in the design of new computing applications.
