Interesting article about friends from the BBC

[erykah101]

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

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[stephm424]

After reading this I found myself checking my facebook to see how many 'friends' I had. Although many are from high school, I didn't realize that I even knew 150 people!

That's a very interesting article. Thanks for sharing!

[burntcopper]

I have 132. rather a lot are convention people, so I wonder what status that puts them in.

room space still free?

[rahirah]

That's interesting, because I've seen 150 cited by anthropologists as the largest number of people which can sustain a tribal, everyone knows everyone else lifestyle. Get a group much bigger than that, and it either fragments, or starts building a leadership structure of some kind.

[lovejames]

'Average' is hardly a word i would use to describe you!