The Inner Circle of 150 Friends
Dunbar: You can have 1,500 friends [at Facebook] but people maintain [an] inner circle of around 150; http://j.mp/5j0ffl
Dunbar: You can have 1,500 friends [at Facebook] but people maintain [an] inner circle of around 150; http://j.mp/5j0ffl
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Gerrit Eicker 16:16 on 25. January 2010 Permalink |
Dunbar (study is due to be published later this year): “The interesting thing is that you can have 1,500 friends but when you actually look at traffic on sites, you see people maintain the same inner circle of around 150 people that we observe in the real world. – People obviously like the kudos of having hundreds of friends but the reality is that they’re unlikely to be bigger than anyone else’s. … There is a big sex difference though … girls are much better at maintaining relationships just by talking to each other. Boys need to do physical stuff together.”
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