Have you ever checked out the suggestions that your facebook gives you, the people that the site thinks you may know and then realize how connected you are to a relative stranger, I have. For example; I have a friend on FB that was my roommate when we were in out 20's, she was attending school at the University located in the next city from where my house was lived and was sick of living on campus so I gave her a room in my home for the semester, we also worked together when I worked nights at a restaurant as a cashier...years later I located her on FB and saw that one of her friends was someone I went to high school with, we never knew this when we lived together, strange thing about this is that she was from Grapevine, Texas and that is where she lives now, "small world". In my opinion, when you are on FB you cannot be a cheater, lire, or pretend to be someone you are not...someone will always "know" you. Living in a small town makes this even more true, we talk and we really talk on FB...hell, that is where I get most of my town "information", I know who died, got married, had a baby or even got caught cheating on their spouse through FB...yes, through FB!
Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that everyone is at most six steps away from any other person on Earth, so we could count the world among those associate to us by no more than 6 associations. Do you believe this theory? Well I do, it is a "small world" and it is getting even smaller. Here is a couple of examples when the "six degrees" kicked in, in my life...When I was working as an Orthodontic Assistant in Liberty, Missouri (80 miles from where I live now) I took the braces off of a gentleman who I thought was pretty handsome, to say the least...a couple of years later while I was attending the Batchelorette Party for my cousin in the town I am currently living in a stripper came to entertain us...low and behold that stripper was that young gentleman who had been that patient I thought was handsome while working at the Orthodontic office...small world! Another situation, my ex-husband, who I actually met for the first time twice (if that makes since) once in passing at a concert and another time at a bar (I should have known, huh?)...his cousin married a man from the town in which my mom lives now, over 100 miles away from where my ex-husband lived at the time...I often wonder if we wouldn't have met that first/second time would fate have jumped in and have us meet later so that we could have created our children (Ragan and Nash)?
Since I've been blogging, I have only had a couple of "Small World" encounters, but I have only been blogging for 10 months. So in theory, what happens in Vegas, doesn't always stay in Vegas, what happens on Facebook, doesn't stay on Facebook and what happens in the blog world, doesn't stay in the blog world...someone knows something about you and your past, so don't be someone you are not..."WE" will find out...eventually!
I found this while researching "six degrees of separation"...this was sort of the original Happy Mail:
"In 1967, American sociologist Stanley Milgram devised a new way to test the theory of the Human Web, which he called "the small-world problem." He randomly selected people in the Mid-West to send packages to a stranger located in Massachusetts. The senders knew the recipient's name, occupation, and general location. They were instructed to send the package to a person they knew on a first-name basis who they thought was most likely, out of all their friends, to know the target personally. That person would do the same, and so on, until the package was personally delivered to its target recipient. Although the participants expected the chain to include at least a hundred intermediaries, it only took (on average) between five and seven intermediaries to get each package delivered. Milgram's findings were published in Psychology Today and inspired the phrase "six degrees of separation." *source*
Since I've been blogging, I have only had a couple of "Small World" encounters, but I have only been blogging for 10 months. So in theory, what happens in Vegas, doesn't always stay in Vegas, what happens on Facebook, doesn't stay on Facebook and what happens in the blog world, doesn't stay in the blog world...someone knows something about you and your past, so don't be someone you are not..."WE" will find out...eventually!
I found this while researching "six degrees of separation"...this was sort of the original Happy Mail:
"In 1967, American sociologist Stanley Milgram devised a new way to test the theory of the Human Web, which he called "the small-world problem." He randomly selected people in the Mid-West to send packages to a stranger located in Massachusetts. The senders knew the recipient's name, occupation, and general location. They were instructed to send the package to a person they knew on a first-name basis who they thought was most likely, out of all their friends, to know the target personally. That person would do the same, and so on, until the package was personally delivered to its target recipient. Although the participants expected the chain to include at least a hundred intermediaries, it only took (on average) between five and seven intermediaries to get each package delivered. Milgram's findings were published in Psychology Today and inspired the phrase "six degrees of separation." *source*
I know, this was a lot to read, so if you skipped a few paragraphes I don't blame you! (o:
Have a lovely Monday!
xoxo~Meg
Grapevine is the next city over from where we live. We can be there in about 5 minutes.
ReplyDeletesmall world!! but i still wish i was closer to some of my beautiful blog friends! :\
ReplyDeletexxoxo