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If a past Human behavior is now designing Civilization, it happened in a Tribe• 👹🔄👺 #DunbarsNumber #AncientFuture (at Los Angeles, California)
#DunbarsNumber : I'm going to try and follow only 150 persons on Instagram. Please don't get offended if I don't follow back. My news feed needs to be beneficial for my skill set. If you enjoy my content and/or you like welding then please follow. 🖖
Most of your Facebook friends couldn't care less about you
Even if you have thousands of Facebook friends, you can probably only count on a handful in a pinch, according to a new study. The author, anthropologist Robin Dunbar, should know. He's the guy who came up with Dunbar's number, which shows that in th...
Original post: Engadget
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I would like to see Dunbar’s Number baked into the core logic of some new social &/or network based companies.
Comment burp on "Continuous Partial attention and Dunbar's Number"
Over at eirepreneur.com I dropped what started as a short comment but got carried away. James then higlighted the comment by republishing it in full as a post in its own right. So I thought should have a record of it on my own blog too. If you're a regular reader of eirepreneur my apologies for the comment burp. Please excuse...
In response to my post about Continuous Partial Attention and Flow Niall Larkin posts another one of those comments that's just too good to leave drifting downstream - "Maybe these guys are getting into a tangle 'cos they are just mixing up their ideas and flow streams. Off the top of my head, Stowe Boyd was talking about social flow or the flow of information through ambient channels in social groups. While Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi was talking about the sensation of flow that we experience internally when focused and tuned into and deeply engaged in a specific task that challenges us. And Marc Andreesen is talking about the other side of Linda's 'continuous partial attention' coin by describing 'continuous partial interruption'.... more
The Internet Can Not Buy You Any More Friends
No matter how big Facebook gets, it seems you can only ever have 150 "friends". When the iconic British social anthropologist Robin Dunbar addressed the issue further in his new book, How Many Friends Does One Person Need? — we highly recommend it.The amount of time we invest in a relationship is proportionate to its quality. Face-to-face relationships are simply unmatched by online ones.
“A touch is worth a 1000 words any day,” says Dunbar. But what online relationships are good for is to stall the decay of a relationship. If you don’t go to the pub sooner or later, it will die.” ~ Dunbar
Social Media is like being a Celeb
Social media is a parallel universe to the real world we all reside in. You need to act and engage within this parallel universe in a similar manner that you do in any other social or business scenario within our live realm. Sounds simple, right? It is. - Robert M. Caruso, Bundlepost
No it's not. Context is very important. There are different rules for different social situations. For example, the Vietnamese language is instructive because it makes some of this explicit (PDF).
Fans are problematic. A successful blog will have thousands of followers. A successful brand (or celeb) might have, say, 100K fans. But Dunbar's number shows that people can only manage about 150 relationships.
So the relationship between celeb and fan is asymmetric:
to the fan, it's a social relationship
to the celeb, it's not. They know fans are happy if you even remember them
When representing a small brand, like me with this blog, be yourself. It works well enough at that scale. I think this is why some people don't see the problem.
But when representing a big brand, forget your normal life. Put yourself into the position of a celeb, such as a sports star. You see enough of them on TV or in the gossip mags to get the idea. Fans engage intensely with them; the other way around the engagement is limited to things like signing autographs or asking "what do you do?"
- Pete
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