Fun facts about social circles, [via Lifehacker]:
Average number of friends per person is 150:
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.
The Economist has an article on Facebook users:
the number of people on an individual’s friend list with whom he (or she) frequently interacts is remarkably small and stable. The more “active” or intimate the interaction, the smaller and more stable the group.
Thus an average man—one with 120 friends—generally responds to the postings of only seven of those friends by leaving comments on the posting individual’s photos, status messages or “wall”. An average woman is slightly more sociable, responding to ten.
And yes, it’s all very sociological/anthropological.
1 Comment
March 9, 2009 at 5:58 pm
erm, i guess it COULD be true cos I do have less friends than the average… My close friends total up to around… slightly more than 10…. but all of these 10+ are the core people. I don’t really like the idea that a sweeping observation describes my real situation…