Social Interaction

Social Interaction

As should be expected, when a publication like the Economist writes an article about Facebook, people listen and people respond. The author noted on his own blog, “The point of the piece: to add a tiny bit to the research debates about human group size.”  The message of the article is that even though people on Facebook have an average of about 120 of friends, they tend to interact with a very small percentage (less than 10) of them on a regular basis. Furthermore, even those that have hundreds of Facebook friends tend to interact with only ...