[brailsafe]

> No one actually has a mutual connection with more than 1000 people

Maybe it's a bit pedantic, but surely this is less likely to be true with no other qualifications like what counts as a mutual connection.

All it would take is 50 people that I'm acquainted with who also know 20 people I've never met, which seem like very plausible numbers.

Now, whether I would want to establish any kind of connection with those people on the basis we both know someone in common is a different question

[satvikpendem]

That's what they mean, those 50 acquaintances are your mutual connection, not those 20 each you've never met.

[brailsafe]

True, my bad. I guess I was thinking of it though in the context of a recommendation to connect based on a mutual connection, whereby you could easily come up with a list of 1000 people who I don't know but that one of my friends does, since the context was a social media platform and that's a common feature