Discover how we're all connected through just six social links, from Stanley Milgram's famous experiment to modern social media shrinking our world to just 3 degrees of separation.

Six degrees isn't just a coincidence—it's actually the inevitable result of how people naturally form social connections. It's like social networks have a built-in gravitational pull toward this magic number.
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