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06 Mar 2009 08:37 am
The Limits Of Facebook
Humans can only process so many friends - around 150, according to anthropologists. The rest is grooming, like chimps. And the real circle of communicants is stable and small:
[A]n average man—one with 120 friends—generally responds to the
postings of only seven of those friends by leaving comments on the
posting individual’s photos, status messages or “wall”. An average
woman is slightly more sociable, responding to ten. When it comes to
two-way communication such as e-mails or chats, the average man
interacts with only four people and the average woman with six. Among
those Facebook users with 500 friends, these numbers are somewhat
higher, but not hugely so. Men leave comments for 17 friends, women for
26. Men communicate with ten, women with 16.
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