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I've observed that the world's most awesome people are pretty strongly connected, graph-theoretically. I would bet that there are well fewer than six degrees between, say, Eliezer and Hitchens under the relation "good friends with".
Most English speakers probably are that closely connected. If you reduce it to "is acquainted with", most people in the world.
The problem with connecting to somebody is to know how you're already close. A depth-6 search of the acquaintance graph is unmanageable from any starting point outside of the few remaining uncontacted tribes.