[One_Upmanship]

[SouthDixie]

felt more responsibility towards each other.

The problem with friends is, most people want friends but don't know how to be one.

[Darkwolf377]

150? I think his idea of a “friend” is most people’s idea of a nodding acquaintance.

[Cvengr]

Yes, but are they really friends?

[libh8er]

That’s interesting. I have seen many Facebook profiles with exactly 150 friends.

[SmokingJoe]

Is this “research” from the University of East Anglia too?

[wildbill]

A friend will bail you out of jail; your best friend is in the cell with you, saying,”Damn that was fun. Let’s do it again.”

A friend will help you with your drug problem; your best friend scored them and invited you to party.

A friend knows where the bodies are buried; your best friend helped you bury them.

[N. Theknow]

150 friends?

For the posters on DU, that's a lot of blow-up dolls.

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	When your only tool is a hammer... Dunbar said that once he had determined the upper range of friends, he examined a wide range of historical and contemporary settings to see if the number still applied. And it did -- in everything from villages 100 years ago in which the population hovered around 150 to individuals' social networking sites. Even the Gore-Tex fabrics factory keeps its employees at 150 at each of its sites, he said. Some of Dunbar's work on the magic number 150 is being used in other areas of research, including the development of mobile phones and how much storage is actually needed for people's address books, as well as building the optimum organizational structure. Even last year's international banking crisis might have been averted if the number 150 had been applied, Dunbar said. Nutbar may be more like it. Hey, another anthropology topic! Thanks One_Upmanship. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[Grimmy]

My own personal limit on friends is 5.

Any more than that is just too much bother.