A research scientist at Facebook (has Facebook really grown to the point where they have an inside research scientist??) recently revealed some statistics on its users' behavior on the site. Despite some users having hundreds of friends on Facebook, people still at their core only really interact with a small circle of intimate friends and that social networking is really just broadcasting their lives to an 'outer tier of acquaintances'. Makes sense, right? Time and attention for any given person is finite while adding 'friends' on a social network is not.
This research is based on a person's Dunbar number. This is a number attributed to British anthropologist Robin Dunbar who theorized that human's have a limit to the number of meaningful relationships any one person could have (it seems that the average number is about 150).
So do you have a high or low Dunbar number?
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