It's never 6 degrees.

[butterflydreaming]

I found this... in an old entry of a friend's journal. It's incredibly cool. You can see how you're connected, through LJ, to another LJer via a wandering journey of other people.


I chose to pick someone who isn't in the main cluster of my friends, and skipped the one-hop connection. I also skipped angelevangeline, who, strangely, seems to be some kind of hub. (I want to be a hub!) I don't know her. My result was only 4 hops, one person I know and 2 strangers. I also used the random name option, from duskyjewel, and it still only took 6 hops.



butterflydrming -> dkellis -> cette_vie -> wayfairer -> clio_the_muse (4 hops)

LiveJournal Connect! Enter your username in the left box, someone else's username (or a * for a random one) in the right box, and press the button! -> Quiet Mutual 2 chains No 1-hop Users to ignore: Coded by sachmet

Comments

[clio-the-muse.livejournal.com]

I'm confused - aren't we mutual friends?

[butterflydrming.livejournal.com]

I used the "skip one hop" option, and I picked you because most of my other f-listers are from tsukimineshrine and musemuggers_2. So this is how we're connected outside of being mutual friends!

[clio-the-muse.livejournal.com]

Oh, nifty! It's interesting to see how closely people on LJ are connected. If it weren't too obviously complicated, it'd be fascinating to see a graphically representation of everyone's links to each other...a giant 2-D web, in other words, not just a chain.

Also, I think I know some other people on your friends list whom I just haven't gotten around yet to friending, so, yeah, intriguing.

[butterflydrming.livejournal.com]

That LJ Mindmap thing is kind of what you're talking about. It clusters the names, and seems to be based on mutual-friendness. (The link is somewhere on an earlier post. When I get my finished map, I'll put it up.)