What makes for a Facebook friend, anyway?

In facebook, you have many friends (assuming it)? 100? 500? 1000? How much is much?

Night, the host (Jimmy Kimmel) cite an example, if you have exceeded a thousand, maybe it is time to start "cutting life has nothing to do with your friend."

Facebook The blog owner on Wednesday night are being attracted Kimmel's monologue. "I saw thousands of people will netizen called 'friends'," which is impossible, Kimmel insisted. "You can not have 1,000 friends."

How do you distinguish a Facebook friend or a true friend? Kimmel said, this is very simple. "For example, on Friday, updates about the state, this week I move, need help." Who respond to you, who is your friend, others are not. "

Or, there are other examples of this: "You have a special relationship with a friend, he certainly did not ask you what Harry Potter character is kind of that person."

In Kimmel's rhetoric, he indicates that there will be a new holiday: "National cancellation friend Day" on November 17.

"Friendship is sacred," Kimmel said (he half-jokingly said), "I believe Facebook is ruined it."

In fact, the size of the circle of friends on Facebook is to have clear boundaries, Facebook will retain 5000 friends for you - this is purely a cause of back-end technology, like the New York Times pointed out, not a network administrator feel your definition of "friend" too loose.

However, 1000 is absolutely impossible to have a friend, Kimmel dubious to say?

Yes, according to evolutionary anthropologist Robin Dunbar (Robin Dunbar) wrote an article in the London Times, "our brains do not have enough space, we can only build a strong friendship with a handful of people."

In fact, "150 Christmas cards, which is the average number of people you send a card." Dunbar said.

150 friends, is not it? Well, my friends in Facebook over the Dunbar limit. It seems some of you people have to go.

Of course, this little debate forces us to ask: What is a Facebook friend? Our "friends" can only be real friends - such a person, "his relationship with you involves trust and responsibility," which has some history, not just a name or number, as observers Dunbar friends earlier definition.

Or Facebook friends in are: address book name, face or close friends or acquaintances numbers?

You say it is not.