All the time, I hear people saying, once they realize that someone they know knows someone they know, "it's a small world!"No, it's not a small world. Not at all.
Just because you can go to some get-together and run into someone who has met someone you are related to doesn't mean the world is getting smaller, it means that communication functionality is getting better and better.
The reason why everybody and their mother knows everyone in today's world is that they're integrating themselves in all sorts of new types of interactive social web sites. I mean, obviously.
Have you ever tried walking somewhere before? Walking is hard, and doing it takes forever. The other day I tried walking to my friend's house, which is a couple blocks away, and it took forever.
Exhausted at arrival, I sat down and recollected on my weary travels, and couldn't help but feel like I had really accomplished something. If I could travel this far on my own on foot, what else could I do? Could I go to the grocery store? Could I even go to Best Buy?
Yeah, I could, but that would be stupid because I have a car that I can drive in, which gets me there a lot quicker.
But that doesn't mean that the amount traveled is any less, it's just easier to get there. The same goes with your stupid theories on the world getting smaller. Just because something is easier to accomplish using today's tools doesn't mean it's easier to do in general.
Your relative perception is just skewed, and that is what's contributing to your douchebaggy small-talk rhetoric (but it's not the only thing).
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