Keep Track Of My Life, But Please Don't Call Me

KEEP TRACK OF MY LIFE.. BUT PLEASE DON'T CALL ME FACEBOOK "FRIENDS" vs. PHONE CONTACTS PARTICIPANTS 47 21 26 AGES 87.2% 10.6% 2.1% 18-24 25-34 45-54 7.3% 7.7% 90.4% 2.3% 92.3% 0.0% THE NUMBERS *AVERAGED 521 FACEBOOK "FRIENDS" 220 PHONE CONTACTS 548 1 258 498 301 208 QUESTIONABLE “FRIENDS" *DIFFERENCE 1 290 290 DIG DEEP Only 6.5% of participants had more phone contacts than Facebook “friends" All Male. All 18-24 yrs of age. 8.0VER.800 » People who have more than 800 Facebook friends exhibited stronger signs of self-absorption, vanity, superiority, self importance and agressive responses to negative comments than people with less friends. - Western Illinois University All 18-24 yrs of age. All 18-24 yrs of age. AVERAGE AVERAGE FRIENDS 1,177 PHONE 285 DIFFERENCE 892 917 FRIENDS 345 PHONE 17% of participants had over 800 "friends" 572 DIFFERENCE DUNBAR'S # » A theoretical limit to the number of people with whom any individual is able to sustain a stable or meaningful social relationship (usually considered to be roughly 150) - Oxford Dictionaries Only 3 participants had under 150 “friends" FRIENDS 137 PHONE 19 AGE 45-54 FRIENDS 90 PHONE 35 AGE 18-24 FRIENDS 80 PHONE 30 AGE 25-34 HOW MANY 6"FRIENDS" DO YOU HAVE?