Almost six years ago, I joined sixdegrees.com–the first FOAF network of its kind (that i knew of). And now, there\’s Friendster, Tribe, and Orkut.

Now that Friendster has fully matured. The theory of everyone being connected by at least 6 degrees is true! Yesterday, I suddenly remembered the full names of people I used to know 5 years ago. People I met online of course. A crazy wacky girl named Elaine who eventually went to UPenn. A girl named Lauren from Puerto Rico where we had a flame war for about a week and became email buddies instead…she went to Yale. And a guy named Michael I met in the Yahoo Club BayAreaTEENS who went to UC Davis. I found all these three on Friendster (a couple of others I couldn\’t find at all–the guy who asked me \”what are your hopes and aspirations?\” and I gave a half-sarcastic answer and he got mad (we subtly flirted later), the guy from SoCal who yearned to be a philosopher and found an online gf from Oregon, the guy from Wisconsin who called me but I was too socially inept to deal with a real conversation. But with all the three I found, only five degrees of separation!!!

What this really means is that all the people I have met in life, I was most likely connected to them in 6 degrees.