Email traffic data casts doubt on global village theory

This skews the study substantially. My facebook friends are my old classmates, colleagues, family and friends. Most of them are people that live close to where I do.

My e-mail habits are very different. Businesswise I probably correspond with more people abroad than in my own country.

The sample determines the output - and in this case the sample isn't representative of all online communications.

           m1 m2
  p(r) = G -----
            r^2

And with communication getting easier, maybe so does the realization that it is easier to find value in in-person relationships.