Years ago, a popular book described "six degrees of separation", to hypothesize that everyone in the world was at most six contacts away from knowing everyone else!
This morning, while checking out from our Palm Beach County Costco, wearing a University of Virginia shirt and cap, with party supplies for an afternoon alumni event, the cashier said "UVA...I'm from Charlottesville...great school...I went to Washington and Lee..."
A few weeks, while preparing for Palm Beach's attempted first "run from the Bulls" ( to relate to Pomplona, Spain's event), I was talking to a couple..."We just moved here from Arizona...my husband is an author that specializes on the life, travels, and wines of Thomas Jefferson (the founder of UVA)..."..."You are? My whole family graduated from the University...an out of state record..."
In this "social media" world, I find that all of a sudden I have 1,133 Facebook "friends"! Every time I log on, I get pop ups that suggest that I "friend" another ten individuals that have mutual friends.
When I set out to arrange our 40th high school reunion, the list of contacts from the reunion 30 years before only had about 25 active contact records. Thru Facebook, Linked In, and Google Search, I was able to discover over 100 others.
There is hardly a conversation anywhere, where I mention something that doesn't lead to a mutual contact...
In current time I suggest that six degrees of separation has been replaced with one degree!
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