HUMAN BRAIN CAN ONLY HANDLE 150 FRIENDS.

Habari zenuuuuu!!!!
Sasa hii ni kwa wale jamaa zangu on social networks, habari yako aisee!! List ya friends zako, inasomekaje aisee!!?? Sasa, All those people who have Facebook friends numbering in the thousands should maybe get a grip and realize they’re kidding themselves as to how popular they are. Umaarufu au siyo!! New research unaonyesha kwa the human brain can only cope with a maximum of 150 friends, in real life or on the Web, so it sometimes pays to be unpopular. So zaidi ya 150, hao wanakuwa meaningless!! Labda only, for popularity.

I suspect most of us have multiple social networking accounts. Sijui Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Mocospace, TheGrid, Ze nini sijui, etc., I also suspect that most of us have hundreds of friends on these sites, even though we hardly know any of them. Tunaowajua ni less than 25% waliopo on our list.

That’s because social networks are unlike real life in that they exist to offer connections between people, real or imagined. Me mwenyewe niko na very few friends in real life. But I have more dan 100 friends on Facebook, na kwa hesabu za haraka tu, shows I’ve met less than 40 of these people in real life; 20 of which are family members, with the other 20 being friends. Wengine are online friends ambao hata nikikutana nao, hawawezi nitambua.

According Robin Dunbar, professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, has studied social networking sites and concluded that they are still subject to ‘Dunbar’s Number’, a theory he developed in the 1990s which suggests our neocortex can only manage a social circle of 150 people or less. He explained:

"The interesting thing is that you can have 1,500 friends but when you actually look at traffic on sites, you see people maintain the same inner circle of around 150 people that we observe in the real world. People obviously like the kudos of having hundreds of friends but the reality is that they’re unlikely to be bigger than anyone else’s.

There is a big sex difference though … girls are much better at maintaining relationships just by talking to each other. Boys need to do physical stuff together."

So, Mr. and Mrs. Popular on Facebook, The human brain is designed to handle no more than 150 friends - only five of them close - no matter how many you may have on Facebook or Twitter. There’s no point in building up your friends list with nobodies you don’t really know but are just aware of slightly, as your brain isn’t capable of managing such a huge social circle. Instead, jaribu kuwa real!! Wamudu vizuri wale wachache who are so Cool and Dear to you.
Sasa, habari ndo hiyo you can keep your list 150+ but in real sence ukikaa utaona unawasiana nao kihuakika, is only less than 150!!