Are you on Facebook? If so, what do you love about it? Do you personally know all your Facebook Friends? What percentage of them do you think are “true” friends?
A study was re-released by Robin Dunbar of Oxford University, wherein he retested his theory that the size of the human brain’s neocortex can only comprehend social circles of 150 before cohesion gives out. In the 1990s, this number of ’150′ was known as ‘Dunbar’s number,’ and he arrived at it by studying everything from primitive tribes to modern office environments. So, Dunbar revived the study, curious about how the ‘Facebook effect’, or the widening of social parameters due to networking, has affected our ability to maintain relationships. Primarily, he attests, it doesn’t. Still, 150 is his magic number.
I know a young woman with 500 “friends” on Facebook. Are they “true friends”? What defines a “true friend”?
The question for the week: “What is a true friend?” Here is one answer:
Jesus wanted to make sure His disciples understood His deep love for them, so He put it into WORDS. “No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing. But I now call you FRIENDS because I have passed on to you everything the Father has made known to Me.” (John 15:15)