The birth of any theory will have a strong influence on practice. Of course, six-degree space theory is no exception.
The six-degree space theory is a conjecture in the field of mathematics called six Degrees of separation. The theory is simply that there will be no more than six people between you and any stranger, that is to say, you can know any stranger by up to six people.
In the 1960s, Milgram, a social psychologist at Yale University, designed a chain-mail experiment in Milgram. He randomly sent a chain of letters to 160 people residing in Omaha, Nebraska State, with the name of a Boston stock broker who asked each recipient to send the letter to a friend they thought was closer to the stockbroker. After receiving the letter, the friend does the processing. Eventually, most of the letters arrived at the stockbroker after six steps. The concept of six-degree space comes from this.
This chain experiment embodies a seemingly universal objective law: the socialization of modern human society members, may be through "Six Degrees of space" and linked, absolutely no connection between A and B does not exist. This is a more typical, profound and universal phenomenon of nature. So, how to use mathematical theory to reveal the "six-degree segmentation phenomenon"? This is another important mathematical conjecture in the field of modern mathematics.
It elites can apply this theory fully to the Internet, regardless of the math field. Especially business people flock to business friends.
LinkedIn in the United States has succeeded, and the European OPENBC (now Xing) has succeeded. Last December 7, OPENBC was listed on the main board in Frankfurt, Germany. The first day of the stock price of 30 euros/shares. Net cash of € 35.7 million was received through an additional Xing net of about 1.3 million shares. This is the world's first business-class SNS website listing. In addition, from various sources, the United States of LinkedIn will be listed next year.
In China, however, the theory seems to be a bit acclimatized, and no one has been successful at the moment. This begs the question, six degrees space theory in China can make business friends? It reviewer Liu Xingliang has the following big questions:
1, can have the energy management come over six degree friend?
Six-degree space theory requires us to manage six-degree friends, but can we manage to come over? It is estimated that many people can not even manage their own friends. Recently saw a lot of people cleaning their MSN friends, including me, there are a lot of people do not know what is.
2, degrees and degrees between the strength of how to grasp?
The first six Degrees affirm the universal connection between people, but there is no quantitative analysis of this connection. We may know thousands of people in our lives, some of them are extremely important to me, some of them are insignificant to me, the reasons and methods of our connection are also different, there are parents and relatives of this type of life and inherent links, but also because of geographical proximity developed, such as neighbourhood relations, as well as the development of a common learning and life of students, Colleague relationship. In the six degree theory, they are all attributed to the relationship, no strong or weak points. In the network structure, the relationship between people, need to be weighted treatment, here, six degrees is incomplete.
3. Can you distinguish between sand and gold?
Business dating sites are designed to help people find business partners and translate other people's interpersonal networks into direct commercial profits. However, it is not easy to pick gold from the sand, and in the way of this young business model, there is also a deep Chinese-style barrier of trust crisis. Now the internet era still fancy eye benefits, such a subdivision of the user group is a bit ahead of the model?
4, can the "dinner" and other traditional Chinese culture line of defense?
The six-degree space theory contradicts many of China's traditional cultures. In business friends, six-degree space advocating through a friend to introduce the network to pass the business can be done. But is it going to work in China? Do you think you can handle it without dinner?
5. Can you solve the dialectics of quantity and quality?
The most contradictory thing about the development of business website is how to obtain the high-speed development of the user under the premise of maintaining the quality of the members and connections. According to the statistics of the contact family, its registered users, most of it people, more than 30% for the manager level, and users are very "old age": There are 77% between 25~39岁. Of the current registered users, 59% are looking for business opportunities, 50% want to find a better job, 25% is to dig people, 63% to find like-minded friends. As can be seen from the data, the registered business dating site is mostly for business purposes. But in fact, there are some "civilian" class to register, these people either with a curious mentality, or want to opportunistic access to some resources information. Business websites want to do large-scale, the number of users is an essential factor. However, if the registration of many users can not give others the opportunity and help, the site's gold content must be low a lot.
6, some people do not want to share friends how to do? Six-degree delivery stops abruptly?
In our life, the higher the status of a person, the more famous people he will have more friends, so he would not want to casually expand their relationship circle, because they are often overwhelmed.
7, friend of friends must be friends?
The premise of the existence of the six-degree space theory is that "friends are friends", is that correct? It looks right, but it's not. For example, due to the working relationship, A and B become a form of friends, all the day, and in fact, a very despise B for human. This time, B's friend is a friend?
Can six-degree space theory make business friends in China? I look at the hanging
