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Brain can’t handle more than 150 Facebook friends
- ctingom 17y agoApparently they haven't ever met the brain of a teenage girl.
- rwolf 17y agoSpotting regurgitations of Dunbar's number would make a fairly good drinking game. Bonus points when Dunbar repeats himself.
- seiji 17y agoMonkey sphere: http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html
- philk 17y agoGiven how plastic the brain is I suspect that the limit on social relationships is more logistical than physiological. ie actually meeting, being social for long enough to develop a relationship and then maintaining that relationship with someone takes a certain amount of time. Above a certain number of relationships the individual simply doesn't have the time or incentive to acquire more. If there was a real incentive for someone to have more than 150 relationships I would expect that either a), their brain would rewire itself somewhat to handle the increased number or b) they'd make abstractions that would help them to maintain friends more efficiently.
- Goladus 17y agoFacebook might be a way to circumvent Dunbar's number. Knowledge is stored on computers, rather than in your brain, and you can decide to retrieve it if needed.
- wglb 17y agoFlagged. Too little content.