{"id":229836,"date":"2010-01-26T03:49:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T08:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/26\/omg-brains-can%e2%80%99t-handle-all-our-facebook-friends-voices\/"},"modified":"2010-01-26T03:49:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T08:49:07","slug":"omg-brains-can%e2%80%99t-handle-all-our-facebook-friends-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/229836","title":{"rendered":"OMG: Brains Can\u2019t Handle All Our Facebook Friends [Voices]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>By Chris Gourlay, Contributor, TimesOnline<\/p>\n<p>We may be able to amass 5,000 friends on Facebook but humans\u2019 brains are capable of managing a maximum of only 150 friendships, a study has found.<\/p>\n<p>Robin Dunbar, professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, has conducted research revealing that while social networking sites allow us to maintain more relationships, the number of meaningful friendships is the same as it has been throughout history.<\/p>\n<p>Dunbar developed a theory known as \u201cDunbar\u2019s number\u201d in the 1990s which claimed that the size of our neocortex \u2014 the part of the brain used for conscious thought and language \u2014 limits us to managing social circles of around 150 friends, no matter how sociable we are.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technology.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/tech_and_web\/the_web\/article6999879.ece\">Read the rest of this post on the original site<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.allthingsd.com\/20100126\/omg-brains-can%E2%80%99t-handle-all-our-facebook-friends\/?mod=ATD_rss\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Gourlay, Contributor, TimesOnline We may be able to amass 5,000 friends on Facebook but humans\u2019 brains are capable of managing a maximum of only 150 friendships, a study has found. Robin Dunbar, professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, has conducted research revealing that while social networking sites allow us to maintain more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}