When ‘friend’ is a verb, how many can you have?
‘Did you friend her?’
‘They friended each other.’
‘I think I’ll un-friend him.’
From the BBC: The more friends you have, the more you earn, says a study. But modern life can allow little time to maintain meaningful relationships, so what’s the optimum number of friends? It’s widely accepted that friendships are invaluable to the soul but few of us were aware that they could also boost the bank account.
The article doesn’t link to the study or even mention who did it. One of the experts quoted in the piece says there’s a limit to the number of close friends you can have: between 6 and 12. Let me see, there’s hmm hmm hmm, yes, that’s about right.
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April 1st, 2009 at 11:48
In any networking or group setting, the upper limit is 150, according to one study of which author I already forgot. So just because one has 10 million friends on Facebook or Friendster doesn’t mean that they are friendly; popular, maybe.
April 1st, 2009 at 23:53
friends come in different levels…bestfriends, close friends, showbiz friends etc. so i guess, it’s true, there’s really a limit as to how many superfriends one will have!
April 2nd, 2009 at 17:13
If you have 10 million friends in a social networking site, it only means you’re probably very famous… or a camwhore… :|