Interesting article about friends from the BBC
What's the ideal number of friends?
"The average number is about 150" and "They usually consist of an inner circle of five "core" people and an additional layer of 10, he says. That makes 15 people - some will probably be family members - who are your central group and then outside that, there's another 35 in the next circle and another 100 on the outside. And that's one person's social world."
I have 157 friends on my Facebook account (only a few people I know aren't on Facebook). A core of close friends, some family members, couple of old school friends, the current James group, people from older James groups, people I know well from cons, people I know vaguely from cons, people who used to come to cons, a few of the actors I've met, some current work mates and some former work mates. I've met in person about 98% of them and will/may be meeting at least 1% of the remaining of the others in the next year.
Oh my god, lol, I'm really quite remarkably average!
"The average number is about 150" and "They usually consist of an inner circle of five "core" people and an additional layer of 10, he says. That makes 15 people - some will probably be family members - who are your central group and then outside that, there's another 35 in the next circle and another 100 on the outside. And that's one person's social world."
I have 157 friends on my Facebook account (only a few people I know aren't on Facebook). A core of close friends, some family members, couple of old school friends, the current James group, people from older James groups, people I know well from cons, people I know vaguely from cons, people who used to come to cons, a few of the actors I've met, some current work mates and some former work mates. I've met in person about 98% of them and will/may be meeting at least 1% of the remaining of the others in the next year.
Oh my god, lol, I'm really quite remarkably average!