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This deception is not limited to them, or to others of their affluent class. Like the double-sided canvas, this middle-aged liberal-chic couple mask jumbled, chaotic emotions behind a stylish, well-ordered facade–a set of illusions they’ve evolved to carry them through their public and private lives. The Kittredges are art acquirers, and paintings like the Kandinsky define their lives–more than they realize. The other side is completely abstract, a turbulent arrangement of vivid colors dominated by a threatening splash of black.

The side visible most of the time is a cool study of cosmic geometry: spheres and stars floating in the dark eternity of space. Encased in a fine gilded frame (echoed, in Tony Walton’s brilliant set design, in the gold-edged trimming around the apartment’s doors and along its spacious, abyss-like black walls), the painting is actually double-sided. Suspended over the living room of Flan and Ouisa Kittredge–the play’s protagonists and narrators, in whose Manhattan apartment most of the action is set–is a painting by Wassily Kandinsky. Modern art hangs heavy over the lives of the characters in John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation.

#SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION FACEBOOK SERIES#

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To mark the birthday, Comedy Central’s show aired a segment that spawned the #BeforeFacebookI hashtag, where people are sharing memories from their pre-Facebook-era days on the namesake social network, as well as on Twitter. Punch in the hashtag in the search bar and read some, or share your own. With the social network so intertwined with our lives, it’s easy to forget that there was a time before Facebook. “These videos stitch together special moments with your friends in a short film that can be edited and shared. If you looked at your Facebook feed anytime today, you most likely saw a Friends Day video at the top of the page. Of course, in the real world, relationships aren’t as close, but on Facebook, you are most likely friends with someone, or a friend of a friend, or a friend of a friend of a friend. And, they had to run the computation 1.6 billion times, for every Facebook user.

“Calculating degrees of separation in a network with hundreds of billions of edges is a monumental task, because the number of people reached grows very quickly with the degree of separation,” the researchers wrote in the blog post, where they detailed how they conducted the process. Most people average between 2.9 and 4.2.įacebook says analyzing the data is not easy. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a 3.17 degrees of separation, but COO Sheryl Sandberg is much closer with 2.92.

To find yours, head to this blog post (you’ll need to be logged into Facebook). (And no, Facebook isn’t dead according to its recent earnings call, the user base has actually increased, thanks to a shift toward mobile computing.) Naturally, as more people sign up, that number gets smaller. When its researchers, along with those at Cornell and the University of Milan, studied the data in 2011, the degrees of separation was 3.74. The data was released in celebration of the so-called Friends Day (made up by Facebook to recognize its birthday) and in honor of its 12th birthday, the social network says “each person in the world is connected to every other person by an average of three and a half other people.” The concept is similar to Six Degrees of Separation (or Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, if you prefer), except in the Facebook universe, we are a tighter-knit family.įacebook says the number is shrinking. There are nearly 1.6 billion active Facebook users around the world, so what’s the chance of you being connected to any of them? Actually, according to Facebook Research, pretty close: 3.57 degrees close.