You may have 5,000 friends on Facebook but humans brain has a capacity to manage only 150 friends according to a recent study by Dunbar.
Robin Dunbar, professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University is best known for formulating Dunbar's number, roughly 150, a measurement of the "cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships.
Even while social networking sites allow us to maintain more relationships, the number of meaningful friendships is the same as it has been throughout history.
The Theory of “Dunbar’s number” came in 1990 claiming that the size of our neocortex - the part of the brain used for conscious thought and language limits us to managing social circles of around 150 friends, no matter how sociable we are.
These relatiponships means you know how each of the 150 friends are connected to each other and they know what you do and where you are and contact you atleast once a year.
So think twice next time before accepting a friend request or sending a request if you really want to be friend with the person an will you be able to maintain the relationship by atleast knowing whats going on in the life of our friend.
So think twice next time before accepting a friend request or sending a request if you really want to be friend with the person an will you be able to maintain the relationship by atleast knowing whats going on in the life of our friend.
I personally keep a limited no of facebook friends upto 100 whom I know personally but I am not against having several hundred friends including relatives, business contacts and other acquaintances.
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