It's A Small World. Really.

Did you ever go to a party where some annoying dude you knew years ago suddenly walks up to you and says "Imagine that, meeting you here buddy! You a friend of Nathan to? It's a small world, isn't it?" After a short and icy answer you try to avoid any further contact that evening, and you silently curse the world for being far too small...

But it's true: our world is small. Ever heard of the game "Six degrees of Kevin Bacon"? If not, it is a website made to proof the validity of the theory of "Six degrees of separation". The theory says, and it has been proven that every individual on Earth is connected to any random other individual through a maximum of six steps. On the Kevin Bacon website you can enter any actor, from now or in the past, and the database of over 250,000 actors will link them to Bacon within six steps through their co-stars.

Please watch the short video about the science of Six Degrees:

This means that every person on Earth influences every other person. Now, with internet, cellphones and airplanes lines have become even shorter. What we do, what we say, what we dream about for the future, it all influences what our surroundings do, say and dream about. And the consequences of your words and actions may only be six steps away from reaching a lonely sheep-farm on the other end of the world.

So keep sharing here on Steemit! Your words, your music, your art, your personality, they enrich the network of people we call society. And as a world population, as true citizens of the planet, we are closer connected than you might have thought :-)