Six degr"e"es of separation shrinking even further

Think of two subjects and do a search on Wikipedia , you'll realize that these 2 subjects are related to each other somewhere within the range of six links. This might be the average with the maximum link of separation being close to 12 but have we ever thought how true it is for the people in the first world and second world who are really separated by only six degrees of separation . (I will not get into the real existence of first, second and third world country because in times to come, and infact even now this division of worlds will cease to exist). Some proven experiments done say that this degree of separation might really be just a 5 degree of separation , but will this remain what it is and will the social networking sites and various other modes of getting people together and reuniting lost friends and families decrease this separation further. It has become so easy for one in the networked world to search an information about some individual these days. I agree t...