150 Friends

In Robin Dunbar's essay "You Gotta Have 150 Friends", Dunbar makes the point that no matter what Facebook allows us to do, we can only maintain around 150 relationships. That's online and offline. I agree with Dunbar because I'm only close to about 50 people and that feels like a full time job. I can't imagine what 150 would feel like. Some people have 2,000 friends on Facebook, but out of those 2,000 friends how many do you think they stay in close contact with? Dunbar says the extra people you are friends with are just voyeurs looking into your daily life. I would much rather have a close group of friends that I know well then have 2,000 friends that I don't know at all.