don't split the party

[bubblingbeebles]

when i was in high school, i was regular on a forum that had grown during my stay at a rather remarkable rate. when i joined, it was pretty large, but small enough that most people knew most people, and therefore manageable. threads would come and go and while one wasn't expected to keep up with everything they could pop in and out and always feel

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[professorsparks]

Um, just this last year? It was happening as soon as freshman year ended (or at least as soon as sophomore year began). We were split into "people who live in shoak" and "people who don't live in shoak," and now we're further split by housing location.

[bubblingbeebles]

good point; i probably failed to notice because things felt very shoak-centric to me last year, and i also didn't spend all my socialization there. but i think the cluster itself is starting to faction more than ever as of just recently - since the other half of my socialization from sophomore year i'd describe as "cluster", whereas now that wouldn't be specific enough.

[joyful_vydra]

This happened to my year too, iirc mostly during sophomore year. I think it didn't happen to the class between us only because there wasn't initially a big freshman social group in the KGB/cluster to fracture. My non-KGB freshman group also fractured, roughly into KGB-type MSEs and CIA-type mechEs. I think it is most noticeable with cohort 1.0 because there are so many of you and you were so cohesive freshman year.

[aleffert]

I'm pretty sure this always happens. Being a large group is extremely hard and only occasionally rewarding.

[mklip2001]

The hardware limit you mention is also called the Monkeysphere, or Dunbar's number, in case you were curious

[dreaminventor]

http://www.cracked.com/article_15231_7-reasons-21st-century-making-you-miserable.html