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Why can't you keep up with more than 150 friends?
No matter how many contacts are in your phone or followers on your feed, your brain can only maintain about 150 meaningful relationships at a time. That's it. Robin Dunbar discovered this number by studying the link between brain size and social group size across primates.
You can have 500 friends on Facebook, but I'll bet you that the 150 limit is there too.— Robin Dunbar
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Evolutionary Psychologist & Anthropologist
Robin Dunbar is a British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist at the University of Oxford, best known for his research on the cognitive limits of social relationships.
Based on Robin Dunbar: Can We Have More Than 150 Friends? — Oxford Mathematics, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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