Also in awe.

Sorry about what may look like nitpicking, but the "six-degrees-of-separation" idea meant that we are all connected to each other and that the average degree of separation was estimated to be 6 at the beginning of the century. It meant that had you left a letter addressed to anyone in the world, on a park bench in Central Park, it would need to (optimally) travel between 5 people to reach its final destination. Which does not mean that it would require only 5 iterations -- it might have taken quite a bit of effort to move to the next optimally connected person.

In a perfectly connected world, there would be zero separation. Interestingly, when I google "Peter Steeve (notice the spelling) Russia" the first hit returns their blog. (and the second hit is this very thread).

According to the Wikipedia entry, the average separation between randomly selected Twittter users is less than 4 and it takes surprisingly few random iterations to traverse the network.