How could you visualize your own social links to understand your connections better?

Visual maps of social networks can reveal surprising routes between people and help identify key connectors in your community.

Draw a simple network map with yourself at the center and add layers of friends and their friends.

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Six degrees of separation is the idea that any two people on Earth are connected by at most six s...

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The idea of six degrees of separation was popularized in culture by the 1990 play and 1993 film '...

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Studies show social behaviors and influences ripple through networks up to about three degrees of...