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September 7, 2003
Danah on networks and social upkeep
Posted by Clay Shirky
Great Danah Boyd piece on
the delicate decisions that go into maintaining social networks (spurred by an earleir post about her hitting Friendster's
200 Friend(ster) limit:
When anthropologist Robin Dunbar wrote about a 150-person cap in one's social network, he was not referring to 150 people in one's lifetime. He was saying that people can maintain up to 150 weak ties at any given point in time. ... When i have 200+ friends on a site like Friendster, i'm not a social networks anomaly. What is actually being revealed is that my articulated network goes beyond the relationships that i currently maintain...
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