TEDxObserver - Robin Dunbar - Can the internet buy you more friends?

[@CountKoggula]

this is why people are so attached to the first 150 pokemon

[@smokinghot5373]

I wish the audio was louder.

[@k1awdttt]

Great lecture, but I really wish the slides could be more clear.

[@britneytahiri9190]

I think he's on track... but I think the real number is WAY LOWER. If you're going to have quality friends, people you actually relate to, people you actually know and have occasional real world interaction with, etc. I think 20 is pushing it to be honest. There's a famous quote said by tons of wise people, origin unknown, probably a lot of wise people have independently come to this conclusion, and sure some of them probably were paraphrasing the wise people before them... but the quote is "Less is More." It really is. For so many things in life, but especially this. 5 people who have your back, and whose back you have... infinitely more valuable than a hundred plus people that you don't actually spend enough time with to know them, for deep mutual trust, for knowing each other's strengths and being able to work together for each other's mutual best interests, etc.

[@milahu]

> I think 20 is pushing it to be honest. dunbar calls this the "sympathy group" (12-20 people). its a natural hierarchy (pair, clique, parents, family, band, community, megaband, tribe)

[@mavinwiz]

Curious how this holds up in the era of people having grown up in the age of the Internet

[@lovepandora6550]

We did a video on Robin Dunbar and enjoyed it a lot. We even got to meet him, although that wasn't in our film.

[@WorthlessWinner]

Is he sure that our brain is limiting the number of friends, rather than our time? Even if we had no brain limit on the number of people we could hang out with, our time would limit it.

[@GourmetGaloreNET]

Yes, he addresses both. The brain limits it to around 100 - 200, or so it would seem. And the structure of the time spent reveals further information about our natural preferences regarding friendships. I found the part about men versus women in time on phone versus in person very interesting. These are just general tendencies, not "rules" - maybe you should watch the video one more time. I'll have to say that his graphs are not very well suited for a brief talk like this. The compounding of so many factors on one graph, with, presumably error bars? expressed on axes with unfamiliar units - not good choices.

[@RoyMontero]

"You cannot make a friend, you can only be a friend." - Roy Montero "Can the Internet buy you more friends?" - Robin Dunbar Robin Dunbar believes the evolutionary structure of social networks limits us to 150 meaningful relationships at a time. The Dunbar Number is 150.

[@locochapin12]

who else is watching this for our final tomorrow?

[@southparkundersecretwisdom3230]

really? social media.... more like increasing amount of loneliness

[@publicopinion3596]

You misunderstood his points. And have to actually read his books to understand the information where he is coming from. Plus our biases get in the way of alot of things

[@larissaester5039]

Alguém traduz por português urgentemente :(

[@SuperMAHK]

No

[@IamFili]

Me lol.

[@slightlygruff]

It's amazing what lengths libertarians will go to in order to find excuse for their selfish behavior

[@milahu]

It's amazing what lengths STATISTS will go to in order to find excuse for their selfish behavior