This weeks reading Six Degrees talked about the world “viewed as an enormous network of social acquaintances”.

In New Zealand they have a phone company called 2 Degree’s based on the idea that in NZ you are never more that seperated by two mutual acquaintances. I’d been told New Zealand is kind of like a big country town. Like Adelaide and Williamstown.

This will perhaps not be my most in depth critical thinking blog ever but it does spark a little story.

So a little background first.

I went to England in 2012 and met a girl from New Zealand, Danica.

Upon starting uni at RMIT I met another girl named Helena, also from NZ. No connection to Danica.

I went to NZ in July of this year and went to dinner with Danica. It was a BYO – you get lots of Indian food and a bottle of wine each. She brought her friend Sophie who she had met by chance at college. They were living on the same floor.

It did not take long to work out Sophie was from Auckland and went to school with my friend Helena.

This is a pretty simple social network to grasp but I found it amazing that a connection I made in North Yorkshire, England could connect me to somebody in Melbourne, Australia whilst sitting in an Indian restaurant in Dunedin New Zealand.

So basically, the world is small and New Zealand is smaller.

Due to the fear of criticising  our Trans Tasman friends here is a FOTC clip.