The idea that we live in a web of communications and that you're (0) EFFECTIVELY (EFFECT) only six steps away from direct contact with your favourite film star is not a new one. Indeed, it 1DATE the internet and mobile telephony by several decades. In the 1960s, Stanley Milgram established that it was 2SURPRISE easy to contact anyone in the USA via the postal system, even if their address was 3KNOW to you. However, his findings were deemed 4CONCLUDE, since some messages never reached their target. Interest in the idea was revived by John Guare's play Six degrees of separation in the 1990s, and then 5POPULAR by an online game 6TITLE the Six degrees of Kevin Bacon, in which players link any actor to Kevin Bacon in as few steps as possible. More recently, people have tested out the theory using social networking sites like Facebook. There are still questions about how 7REPRESENT the results are, but the Latest technology lends considerable weight to the underlying 8FEASIBLE of the theory.