is the world really that small?

reading up on Kadushin's article posted on blackboard it was interesting to see how small the world is. the eye catching beginning to a paragraph which said "If there were no overlap in people’s personal networks, then one could reach the entire population of the
United States in two or three steps. (Pool and Kochen 1978). " I was frankly frightened by that fact, but in reality, in contrast, the world is huge. Last class i'm sure everybody remembers using that Small World Project website hosted by Columbia University in NYC and let me tell you something....this ain't no small world. As my people to connect to I had some 60 year old lady living in the United States Virgin Islands....I think the closes i came was being in the U.S.V.I. on a cruise a couple years back, other than that I couldn't think of a single person who I actually knew firsthand who might actually be connected to Agnes out in the U.S.V.I..

Still think the world is small? Consider this -- over 6,000 people PER DAY die in car accidents in the United States alone. If the world was that small, then I figure myself or a friend would know at least one of these people....but NO, no sign of connection or poor friends or family that died today in a car accident.

As I was reading the article on blackboard I also found an article in my defense which states how the world isn't too small after all from an IT perspective! Better yet- this article came from an IT Blog called ITToolbox --- Check it out here!

though this was a short post I feel as if reading the article linked above will give everybody the other side of the Small World argument. And if it fails to counter the argument posed in the reading as well as the small world project then it does provide some interesting reading material from an IT sense. Please feel free to respond to this post and the linked article I thought might be interesting especially for all you business majors out there!