Barabasi:Third Links

1. What is the principle of six degrees of separation? What number of social links does any one person need to be connected to global society? p. 30

The principle is that any per person in the globe has six connections between others on average. To be connected to global society, at least one connection or more to the society is needed.

2. How is the fabric of society today different from pre-internet society? p. 31

We can go anywhere by clicking mouse botton. However, if the internet is removed, we immediately lose the connection between the world.

3. How many more links separate any pair of web pages compared to people in society? What can explain the difference? p. 34

Web pages have 19 and it is a bit larger than humans': about six dgrees. The difference is that the internet is larger than human society now.

4. So far, what ranges of separation have network scientists discovered in different kinds of networks? p. 34

Two to fourteen.

5. What does research suggest about the fundamentals of networks? p.34-35

The separation between nodes could be rather large, but as we add more links, the distance between the nodes suddenly collapses.


6. What is your estimate of your personal number of connections to society? What connections are your strongest?

Probably more than three.