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Speaker 1: When you ask people about their social media friends.

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Speaker 2: I'm about six hundred.

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Speaker 3: I have roughly about one hundred plus of friends.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the number is a lot different compared to the

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Speaker 1: real deal friends.

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Speaker 2: Real live friends, about ten lessen ten. Oh.

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Speaker 1: Let's say what if I told you we had the

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Speaker 1: capability as humans to handle one hundred and fifty stable relationships.

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Speaker 1: It's all part of something called Dunbar's number, based off

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Speaker 1: of British anthropologists and psychologist Robin Dunbar, who came up

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Speaker 1: with a theory in connection to our hunter gatherer instincts.

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Speaker 1: But in the digital age, things are more complicated.

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Speaker 3: All my Facebook friends I actually my friends.

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Speaker 1: Most people could count their ride or die friends on

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Speaker 1: one hand, but when it came to social media, the

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Speaker 1: possibilities were endless. On the common Jim McKay WBZ, Boston's

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Speaker 1: news radio