In 1967 social psychologist Stanley Milgram performed an experiment using the regular mail,and sociologist Duncan Watts replicated it using e-mail in 2003.Participants were given a message and the name,address,and occupation of the person who should receive it.Using regular mail in Milgram's experiment and e-mail in Watt's experiment,a participant could only send the message to a first-name acquaintance,who would send it to a first-name acquaintance and so on until it reached the "target person" in another country.Milgram and Watts both found that the average number of intermediaries before the letter or e-mail reached its intended destination to be

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Both Milgram's and Watts's experiments found that the average number of intermediaries between the sender and the recipient was six. This became known as the "six degrees of separation" theory, suggesting that any two people in the world are only six social connections away from each other.

In 1967 Social Psychologist Stanley Milgram Performed an Experiment Using