Here’s the number of friends you can actually have in real life, according to science
A report issued by MIT Technology Review states that you can only have five close friends
THOUGHT you were popular? A study says you can actually count your number of true friends on one hand.
Anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who works at the University of Oxford, believes that there’s a limit on the amount of meaningful relationships humans can really have.
Among a person’s 150 contacts, Professor Dunbar believes that there are different layers of friendship depending on how close you are with someone.
The study analysed how often 35 million people rang their friends, using the frequency to gauge the strength of the relationships.
The tech review explained: “The team assumes that the frequency of calls between two individuals is a measure of the strength of their relationship.
“The average cumulative layer turns out to hold 4.1, 11.0, 29.8, and 128.9 users.”