A WEBSITE showing how anybody can be linked to just about anybody else in the world through friends and acquaintances has been set up in Swindon.
EveryonesConnected.com is drawing hundreds of hits from the curious, the amused and the amazed all over the world.
Based in Clifton Street, the site works on principles discovered in a 1960s experiment in America.
Psychologist Stanley Milgram found that, through just five or six intermediaries, any individual could be linked to millions of others.
The researchers christened the principle Six Degrees of Separations or the Small World Effect.
The website is run by Swindon entrepreneur, Allister Green, 33, and friends Alan Kung, Yu Kung and Andy Lane.
Mr Green said: "We thought up the website while away on holiday.
"Someone started talking about this theory about the six degrees of separation and we thought why not create a website working on this idea.
"So far it is going really well.
"The website is constantly being updated and developed.
"We are already planning further changes to the site.
"It has become quite popular with Brazilian users, so we have translated several pages into Portuguese, but currently the rest of the site is in English."
He said that as the site gets bigger, more pages may be translated into different languages.
"Already the website has more than 1,000 members located in 35 countrie , and the numbers are steadily increasing," he said.
EveryonesConnected aims to keep people who already know each other in close contact, but also to allow people to widen their circle of friends through friends they already know.
Allister added: "The site is very safe. We often hear horror stories about people meeting people on websites, but here there are no strangers.
"All new members to a community are proposed and seconded by their friends."
To join the website, users have two options.
The first way is to be invited by a friend who is already a member of the site.
The second way is to set-up a community from scratch through the site.
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