"Human Web"

My wife Lesia and myself are in Little Rock Arkansas this weekend representing the Arkansas Realtors Political Action committee at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner and reception today. It's always fun to people watch at these events. We were having coffee this morning on the balcony of the Capital Hotel which is Grand old place that has a wonderful history. It would make a Great Blog. That is for later. Now back to my title the "Human Web". The "Human Web" is more commonly known as "Six Degrees of Separation". I've heard this talked about alot but not really sure what it meant. So guess what I goggled it and here's what I found out. Six degrees of Separation refers to the ideal that everyone is at most six steps away from any other person on earth, so that's a chain. A Friend of a Friend statement can be made to connect any two people in six steps or fewer. I thinks that is interesting and now for the Rest of the Story.

We were having coffee this morning on the baloney of this 100 year old Hotel in Downtown Little Rock this morning when I started talking to this very charming lady. We had talked a few minutes when I ask her where she was from and she said New York. After talking for a few minutes I ask why she was in town and it turned into a very interesting conversation. Her 16 year old grandson is a huge Clinton fan. He starting keep up with the Clinton's during Hillary's run for President. It turns out he writes for his local school paper and she decided they would make a trip to Little Rock to see the Clinton Library. They spend the entire day at the Library and found out about Jefferson-Jackson Dinner. A annual Democratic Party Dinner that they are attending. Six Degrees of Separation!! It really does make you stop and think.

Well the second part of the story is we discovered we are in the same Business. Residential Real Estate Agents. It's that Six Degrees of Separation. I have thought about it before just how closely we are all connected. We spend the next couple of hours just talking about the real estate business in New York and how it compares to the Arkansas Market. She is selling apartments, condor's and co-op's while we are selling single family homes. Our average Sales Price in our Market is $109,000 and hers well over 1/2 million. But the interesting thing we both are having the same problems. Seller who purchased at the top of the Market. Buyers worried about their jobs. Loan requirement and how much harder it is to get a loan today. So even though the markets are different they are the same. I think it's some more of that "Six Degrees of Separation" What do you think? It's scary to think about how close we really are to everyone in the world.

The Human Web or Six Degrees of Separation I think social media like ActiveRain bring us even closer together. Could it be Four Degrees of Separation is a few short years?