Create Your Own Website, Fourth Edition

Chapter 8Hanging Out and Making Friends at MySpace

In the 1960s, psychologist Stanley Milgram hypothesized that while there may be billions of people, everyone on Earth can be connected through a relatively short series of social acquaintances. Surprisingly, his experiments found that people in the United States are connected, on average, by just six degrees of separation. In other words, although I have never met Angelina Jolie, perhaps I know someone who has a friend who is a coworker of someone who’s a relative of Angelina’s hair stylist! This collection of acquaintances—your friends, your friends’ friends, their friends, and so on—makes up ...