MADINAH, 26 April 2006 — It’s not unlike the game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,” invented by three American students a few years ago that shows with a little creative thinking, most anyone in the world can be somehow linked to anyone else in the world by six or seven degrees of separation. The daily Okaz reported that a Madinah man discovered a similar inter-connectivity among people, particularly ones with access to SMS text-messaging technology. After discovering that his car had been stolen, the man sent a SMS message with a description of the vehicle, including its license plate number. The message swirled around Madinah, being passed from one person to the next. The message quickly found itself in outlying villages, in cell phones belonging to people who didn’t know the victim of the robbery directly. In 12 hours somebody responded to the SMS message. The man’s car had been seen and reported to police, who returned the vehicle to its rightful owner.
