According to a recent study, the virtual world is bounded relationship management. A recent study by the University of Oxford, found that the actual capacity of the brain can only handle a maximum of 150 people. This restriction is however far less than what our brain imposes reveals wirded.c.uk. The evolutionary anthropology professor Robin Dunbar (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) in 1991 theorized that the human brain cannot handle more than 150 friends. And the “Dunbar’s number” does not change, despite the general trend of our society in daily use virtual social networks (Facebook, Twitter, blogs, dating sites …).
Professor Robin Dunbar Evolutionary Anthropology found that when human relationships beyond the number of contacts, you begin to lose cohesion and, therefore, the links tend to deteriorate.
During the 90s, the school gained some prestige to carry out several inquiries into social groups of various kinds, which analyzed over time.
The basis of his theory is known as the “Dunbar number,” in which he contends that the strip of the brain used for thinking and language limits the management of social circles to a certain proportion of individuals, beyond grade warm welcome that is able to develop each.
The next step of this Oxford don was transpolar these observations to social networks. His intention was to check if the brain enhanced its potential to manage relationships, which in some way be understood as an evolution.
Preliminary research, based on traffic to Facebook, suggest that an average American tends to organize in groups and in the virtual, is governed by the same parameters of real life. Dunbar who is himself explains that “the interesting thing is that you can have 1,500 friends, but when it serves the current traffic on the sites, it appears that people have the same initial circle of 150 people who remain in the real world.”
These relations are in a system where every person knows how each friend is linked to others and can go a year without receiving news of the nucleus farthest.
Research on social networks leads to another conclusion according to him, “girls are much stronger to maintain relationships just by talking. The boys, meanwhile, have a greater need to make physical things together, ” Robin Dunbar revealed this Sunday Times.