Though mostly harmless, Samy was caught by the United States Secret Service and was prohibited from using the Internet for three years. It is considered one of the fastest growing web viruses of all time. Within 20 hours, this code was on more than 1 million myspace user profiles. Whenever anyone visited Samy’s profile, it copied his picture and tag line on his home page saying “Samy is my hero” and also copied the code. In 2005, Samy Kamkar wrote a small piece of code for his myspace account. These experiments suggested that humans are connected to each other through a network, connected to each other by the shortest path. The small world experiment comprised experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram, examining the average path length for social networks of people in the United States. Soon several “small world” projects were conducted. This theory captivated millions of mathematicians, sociologists, and physicists and also laid the founding stone of the first online social network. In one of his stories titled Chains, he said that with growing communication and travel, the friendship network would grow irrespective of the distance between two humans.Īnd with a growing social network, the social distance would shrink immensely.Īll the people on the planet could be connected to one another by 5 or fewer people. In 1929, Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy published a volume of short stories named Everything is Different. The math says that in 6 steps you would be connected with 50 6, or 15.62 billion people. Going by the numbers, the idea looks pretty plausible.Īssume that you know 50 people or have 50 friends and these 50 friends of yours know 50 others who are not your friends, and so on.
In a world of 7 billion people, it seems hard to believe that the Six Degrees of Separation theory contends that we are all connected to each other by six or fewer acquaintances.įor example, there are, at most, six people standing between you and Tom Cruise or President Obama (or Trump if you lean that way). Do you know was the first social network site which allowed the user to create a profile and connect?
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