Tag Archive: social media

100 Things You Should Know About People: #43 — People Expect Online Interactions to Follow Social Rules

When people interact with each other they follow rules and guidelines for social interaction. Here’s an example: Let’s say I go to a café and I see you sitting by the window. We know each other, and so I come up to you and say, “Hi Richard, how are you doing today?” I expect you…

100 Things You Should Know About People: #30 — Our “strong tie” group size is 150 people

Evolutionary anthropologists study social groups in animals. One question they have been trying to answer, is whether there is a limit on how many individuals different species have in their social group. Robin Dunbar studied the relationship between brain (neo-cortex) size and the number of stable relationships that a species had in their social groups….