Last year, I
was surprised when i saw my Indonesian friends' number of Facebook friends.
Most of them has more than 1000 to 2000. I tried to figure out why they have
that many friends, is it because of Indonesia has 200 million of population? I
asked them, whether they know all of their FB friends or not. Answer? No.
They said, when someone asked to be a friend, just accept, that was all.
According to
Robin Dunbar, the author of "How many friends does one person needs?"
and co-author of "The persistence of social signatures in human communication",
even though you have over 1000 or more Facebook friends, the number of your
closest friends are almost same.
Simply there
are two reasons, one is cognitive challenge, and the other is time budgeting problem.
He said, the quality
of relationship can be only improved through the face-to-face situation,
because on-line communication cannot fully express the emotion and be recognized as
well.
The other argument
is really simple. People do not
have time to follow up all their Facebook friends!!
Personally, I
strongly agree with his ideas.
Except for few of
friends of mine on Facebook, for me actually the others are the “voyears” and me as
well!
Moreover, I believe
the quality of the relationship among friends never can be improved only
through on line communication.
Being a Facebook friend is much easier than being a real friend, isn't it?
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/how-many-friends-does-one-person-need/5187328
Yumi PARK
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