I must admit – APLINK blushed on his recent birthday at the amount of Birthday Wishes he got via Facebook friends – i did know most but some ????
According to Cameron Marlow, Facebook’s “in-house sociologist,” that number is four if you are male and six if you are female. As the Economist reports this morning, Marlow’s research indicates that the average Facebook user has a network of about 120 friends, but only has two-way conversations with a very small subset of these ‘friends.’ Interestingly, even for those users who have a far larger number of friends (500+), those numbers barely grow (ten for men and sixteen for women).
via How Many Friends Can You Really Have on Facebook? – ReadWriteWeb.
