Degrees Of Separation -

: The idea was first introduced by Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy in his 1929 short story "Chains" ( Láncszemek ), where characters proposed that the modern world was shrinking due to advances in communication and travel.

Recent research suggests that technology and social media have made the world even "smaller" than Milgram originally proposed: Degrees of Separation

The Small World: Understanding "Six Degrees of Separation" The concept of is the idea that everyone on Earth is connected to everyone else through a chain of no more than five intermediaries, meaning any two people can be linked in six or fewer social connections . This theory, often called the "Small World Problem," suggests that despite the billions of people on the planet, we are part of a surprisingly tight-knit global network. The Origins of the Theory : The idea was first introduced by Hungarian