dailygalaxy.com— Microsoft has studied a total of 30 billion instant messages sent by over 250 million people in June of 2006, and determined that we are in fact, all linked by only 6.6 degrees of separation.
Aug 7, 2008View in Crawl 4
Ok I know I was exaggerating a bit...Obviously Microsoft is NOT reading 30 billion IM's, but it's the fact that they CAN. The main reason I use a private VPN though is so that my ISP, other websites and perhaps most of all the US government can't track and trace everything I do, and put all my info into huge permanent databases. Also I don't want Google knowing everything that I search for.
I think this is very valid. I know for me personally there is 6 degrees of separation between me and Queen Elizabeth II.My (1)girlfriend's(2)Sister's(3)Best Friend's (CEO of Domino's Pizza)(4)Doctor who's other patient is(5)Sir Elton John who was knighted by(6)Queen Elizabeth IIOnce you find a link to a celebrity you can pretty much link yourself to anybody in the world.
Yeah in France everybody uses MSN. A few years ago there were still people using AIM or ICQ, but now MSN is the de facto standard. When I lived in the UK, MSN seemed to be the standard where I worked, too.
axle00Aug 7, 2008
Ok I know I was exaggerating a bit...Obviously Microsoft is NOT reading 30 billion IM's, but it's the fact that they CAN. The main reason I use a private VPN though is so that my ISP, other websites and perhaps most of all the US government can't track and trace everything I do, and put all my info into huge permanent databases. Also I don't want Google knowing everything that I search for.
masterwont0nAug 7, 2008
I think this is very valid. I know for me personally there is 6 degrees of separation between me and Queen Elizabeth II.My (1)girlfriend's(2)Sister's(3)Best Friend's (CEO of Domino's Pizza)(4)Doctor who's other patient is(5)Sir Elton John who was knighted by(6)Queen Elizabeth IIOnce you find a link to a celebrity you can pretty much link yourself to anybody in the world.
loulanAug 8, 2008
Yeah in France everybody uses MSN. A few years ago there were still people using AIM or ICQ, but now MSN is the de facto standard. When I lived in the UK, MSN seemed to be the standard where I worked, too.
mikeon1510Aug 9, 2008
so this means i could be linked to any criminal on earth ? gotta hide !
cappezAug 13, 2008
Yea I tried to replace the ASCII with a message but editing time ran out.