Degres of separation

So, lordofthewheel's sister does this Wolf Conservation thing.  I nabbed a flyer because I thought omylouse  would be interested.  As it happened she already knew lordofthwheel's sister.

This sort of thing happens a lot. I know that beermat  knows a fair number of people in Brighton and a lot of them know various people in the Brighton Tribe.  What was more of a surprise was when he mentioned the name of a school friend of mine.  And there are a couple of people who know everybody in the greater geek community.

I'm still of the opinion that there are actually only a few hundred real people, and I know most of them. Everyone else is a computer controlled NPC with a very limited stock of random meaningless phrases about football to prevent me from trying too hard to talk to them.

There's a theory that any two random people will have on average six degrees of separation between them.  I suspect in the UK geeksphere, this is closer to three people.