http://www.squarecirclez.com/blog/facebook-dunbars-number-and-current-killer-apps/905 Mathematics, learning, computing, travel - and whatever... Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:48:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.squarecirclez.com/blog/facebook-dunbars-number-and-current-killer-apps/905/comment-page-1#comment-63799 Itay Hazan Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:37:51 +0000 http://www.squarecirclez.com/blog/facebook-dunbars-number-and-current-killer-apps/905#comment-63799 Dunbar illuminated on the human brain capacity to form meaningful relationships, also limited by geographics and the psycho-evolutionary tendency to create meaningful communities. Yet in the Information age, where online dating, numerous business connections and random-serendipitous connections are found daily these correlations are not a limiting factor when creating social metadata. That is to say, the facebook average friend list is usually larger than Dunbar's, and if not it will soon. Dunbar illuminated on the human brain capacity to form meaningful relationships, also limited by geographics and the psycho-evolutionary tendency to create meaningful communities.
Yet in the Information age, where online dating, numerous business connections and random-serendipitous connections are found daily these correlations are not a limiting factor when creating social metadata.
That is to say, the facebook average friend list is usually larger than Dunbar’s, and if not it will soon.

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