via How Social Media ‘Friends’ Translate Into Real-Life Friendships from MediaShift When social media first gained attention, I heard many people scoff that these online connections couldn’t possibly be real friends. Some even used “Facebook friend” as a synonym for shallowness, fearing people might trade face-to-face interaction for a virtual life online. France Tracks … Read more
via How Social Media 'Friends' Translate Into Real-Life Friendships from MediaShift When social media first gained attention, I heard many people scoff that these online connections couldn't possibly be real friends. Some even used "Facebook friend" as a synonym for shallowness, fearing people might trade face-to-face interaction for a virtual life online. France Tracks … Read more
Well, as a person who has more than a thousand friends in Facebook, I had already experienced that, now we scientify it (!):
Brain Can’t Handle More Than 150 Facebook Friends Finds Oxford Boffin
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A professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University has found out that human beings are physically limited to being able to link up and manage up