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18 lines
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title = "Why I quit social networks"
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description = "I deleted all my social network accounts 4 months ago. It feels oddly liberating."
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date = "2018-04-01"
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tags = ["Social Networks", "Life Decisions"]
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There was a smart guy called _Dunbar_. He studied some animals and came to the conclusion that a person's social circle is limited to its
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brain's capacity to store information. In other words, we can only store so many individuals in our brain, the rest is just people. It may
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even sound mean, but tu us, people are outside our caring boundaries. This fella studied several poeple and decided that our limit is 150.
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What? We can only remember 150 people? But hey, I have like 1,000+ friends in Facebook alone! That cannot be true!
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It is a little bit more complicated that that. Knowing someone is different than caring for her. Let's do a quick exercise, grab a pen and
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paper, and (without looking to your Facebook) make a list of everyone you know. You may have super-memory, and I can still guarantee that
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you will struggle to write 50 names, let alone 150. This number is much lower in practice.
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