Barabasi: The Third Link pp. 25-35

1. What is the principle of six degrees of separation? What number of social links does any one person need to be connected to global society? p. 30
The principle of six degrees of separation is that every people in the world get to indirectly know each other through six people.

2. How is the fabric of society today different from pre-internet society? p. 31
The fabric of society today is different from pre-internet society in respect of the links that hold the informations together.

3. How many more links separate any pair of web pages compared to people in society? What can explain the difference? p. 34
13 more links seaparate any pair of web pages compared to people in society.

4. So far, what ranges of separation have network scientists discovered in different kinds of networks? p. 34
Network scientists discovered the separations of species in food webs, molecules in the cell, scientists in different fields of science, and the neurons in the brain of the C. elegans worm.

5. What does research suggest about the fundamentals of networks? p.34-35
The research suggests that a node has more than one link. If the node can only have one link then the distance between the nodes would be faraway.

6. What is your estimate of your personal number of connections to society? What connections are your strongest?
I am not very sure but I guess six is an adequate number. I would trust the number that came up from a result of a thorough research rather than my random estimate. I think I am strongly connected to my family.