It's a Wednesday night, and you're sitting in bed, scrolling through Facebook when you come across a video of a cute dog that your best friend's sister shared. You click "like" and are about to keep scrolling when you see that the brother of a girl you were in Girl Scouts with when you were seven commented on the video.
Turns out that the brother of the Girl Scout's friend and your best friend's sister went to the same school and are neighbors. "What a coincidence," you think to yourself. The fact that these two people know each other and you know them but they don't know that you are a common friend. Merely coincidence but then, it happens again.
Your third-grade teacher ends up being friends with your college roommate's mom and they go to yoga together every Sunday. A foreign exchange student from South Africa that you met while he was working at Disney World is currently back in South Africa and dating the ex-girlfriend of some guy you knew from high school drama club. (True story.)
People always say "it's a small world," but how small can it be that out of over seven billion people, the girl that sits in the back of your Tuesday night lecture went to the same summer camp you did in sixth grade?
Facebook is a wonderful tool that allows one to connect with family and friends from all over the world, but it always ends up feeling like the premiere stalking website whenever you find out that there is another connection between all of your mutual friends and people you've only spoken one sentence to last summer.
What's worse is that the chain never seems to end. One connection between two people turns into a family tree of people who couldn't possibly know each other but do anyway. The theory that everyone knows everyone is scary because what if that one person you shrugged off at the grocery store ends up being your long-lost cousin or the son of your future boss?
After all these realizations come to a close, you finally choose to close your laptop. However, you feel your hand voluntarily opening up Facebook on your phone because you're scared that you're going to find out that your second cousin is actually the sister in law of your friend's new husband.
