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Study shows most of your Facebook friends aren't really your friends

Joe AvellaJan 29, 2016, 01:02 IST

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In the early '90s, anthropologist Robin Dunbar proposed that a human being has the capacity to have up to 150 meaningful relationships. Recently, Dunbar did a study of human interaction on Facebook and found that number to be much lower. We only have 4 real friends, and 14 that care at all.

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