
I'm better nowadays at being social and I'm trying to spend my time with people who are meaningful to me.ĭunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships-relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person. With a few exceptions, I unfriended everyone except my actual friends and people I keep in contact with because of shared interests. It's kinda sad.Īnyways there's no use in trying to hold on to what could have been. So many people who's made so little impression on me. And most of all I saw name after name of people I'd no idea who they were, even though I've never been one to add people on facebook without knowing them in real life. I saw people I would have liked to befriend but never did. Going through the list I saw people I've spent every school day with for several years but now haven't talked to in years and have no interest to.

I have always had a hard time connecting with people and most "friends" I had was only people I'd added due to shared situations at the time, like high school and college class mates, dorm room neighbors or work colleagues.

So I decided to go through my whole friend list and unfriend everyone I was not actually friends with. I was struck by how many people I had to scroll through to get to the ones I was actually inviting. I was creating an event for a Halloween party on Facebook and going through my friendlist to send out invites.
