The human brain is only capable of maintaining 150 stable relationships.In 1992, British anthropologist Robin Dunbar came up with 150, which was dubbed "Dunbar's Number," after studying social groupings throughout history. Now, with sites like Facebook pushing the number of declared friendships claimed by enthusiastic social media consumers into the thousands, Dunbar wanted to retest his formulation.
Defining "friends" as those you contact at least once a year, the Oxford professor analyzed Facebook traffic. "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," Dunbar says.
We're glad he cleared that up, because it made us dizzy to think that some of our friends were juggling 1,327 other friendships. Now if someone could explain the mystery of the "poke" function ...




































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Thursday 28 January
By llewsxiii
If I knew 150 people that would be great. regardless of how many are on my facebook page, I might only know 20 seriously. the others are people who know me from middle school, or they are friends with my ex-girlfriend and had to be friends with me...for some strange reason...
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