Kevin Bacon

[kingandy]

You know that old saying about everybody being seperated from everybody else by at most six connections? It seems to be true, at least on Livejournal.

Use This link to find a random journal, then this page to find your degrees of separation. (You'll probably want to "Suppress Explanation" after the first go.) Mildly diverting.

UPDATE: For convenience, here is a form:

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

[rich-bull.livejournal.com]

Tried it, the person I found had no one on his friends list, so I am not linked ... sob. Nobody loves me.

[kingandy]

Try again! Apparently you can put a * in the box and it will grab a random user for you, which saves you looking one up yourself...

Hang on, I'll put the form on the journal entry. Cool.

[kermix.livejournal.com]

One of the more interesting red herrings in the LJ-Connect equation (prior to the addition of the "ignore" code, anyway) was the frequency of fake celebrity users (like heman as "friend hubs" with hundreds of people latched onto them.

This whole place is a really odd specimen no matter how you look at it. Everyone has different standards for listing other people, and it's not always consistent with someone else's definition of a friend.