You know what? 6 degree separation theory? Yes, just that hypothesis according to which each person can be connected to another, anywhere in the world, through a chain of knowledge and relationships with no more than 5 intermediaries. An idea that has always intrigued me, but... will it be true? Is it possible that there are only 6 degrees of separation between us and, for example, an Australian Aboriginal?
There are those on the subject who wrote fior of treatises and who instead, like the chain Mercure hotels, present with its hotels in every corner of the world or almost, try to prove it empirically with competition World The Six Friends. A contest that, thanks to the power of social networks where you can track it with the hashtag #6FriendsTheory, will allow the lucky winner to verify in person the actual reliability of the theory, going to meet, after an adventure around the world along a route marked by a chain of friends and "friends of friends", just an Aboriginal of the Bundjalung tribe, in Australia.
Participating is simple, but there is no time to lose, because just tomorrow, January 20, opens the international casting on Facebook, on the official page of Mercure hotels, where until 10 February you can post a video of the maximum duration of a minute, in which you are presented, telling who you are, what are your passions, aspirations, projects, possible talents, in other words everything you feel useful to qualify as best friend in the world.
And here, in fact, your friends of the network come into play, and friends of friends, of course: contact them, involve them, mobilize them in any way to make you vote. Yeah, because only the top 50 candidates enter the final stage of the competition and between a special jury will select the winner, which in early March will leave for its extraordinary 7 week trip around the world.
In fact, 6 trips await him, during which he will stay in as many Mercure hotels, and 6 meetings with friends and "friends of friends," which will increasingly approach the Australian Aboriginal. Every time, it will be the Mercure hotelier that will reveal to him where to find his next friend and the latter will propose to him to live a unique experience, to measure his interests and passions, to access the next stage.
There are no consolation prizes for other pre-selected candidates, while we can all follow and share the winner's journey, which will be accompanied by a film crew that will immortalize the exciting encounters of the lucky one with its "6 degrees of separation".
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