Either Kevin Bacon has a great sense of humor or he finally got sick of the whole “six degrees of Kevin Bacon” and decided to cash in. Adland received a promotional email from “Kevin Bacon” promoting a program called Six Degrees which “makes it easy for you to raise awareness and support for a charity that’s important to you.” The email urges recipients to make their own Six Degrees AIM page to highlight charity an individual is interested in and promises to help the individual raise money for that charity. It’s a social networking play that’s a nod to the “six degrees of separation” thing that was, itself, social networking before it was called social networking.
As Adland properly states, the choice of Kevin Bacon is the “best choice of celebrity spokesperson for 2007.” We’d have to agree.
