Europe, saying that the so-called friendship, that is a heart in two body, and the Chinese people as “good to wear a pair of pants” to describe the iron buddy. A time when today, “friend” concept has become more diverse: not only meet every day and often a close friend of friction; also the one hand there are always worried about the long see an old friend; have never met some consonance connected users, Bo Friends of the … … then we can really do to friends the world over it?

Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford Robin – Dunbar concluded a well-known “Dunbar number”, namely: whether mobile phones, the number of friends chat software human cognitive ability has allowed the stability of individual friends, is about 150 people (at least one contact). Tribal villages from the Neolithic Age to the Roman Legion squadron, to the modern enterprise no exception.

even dating sites such as modern technology can only help people to extend those by chance, the number of passive links of friends, for close contacts and the number of the core circle of friends have little effect. Therefore, we will find that friends have the stage, though an old friend not seen for many years still cordial met, can be actually the core circle from your retire the.

and modern society with high population mobility, force us to “people as it” has to have changed. So, the ideal circle of friends should be like? Core should be a small number of mutual understanding and trust of the confidante, as “Life is too Sanwuzhiji, is enough”; the same time, the best can have a relatively loose, wider social networks, daily contact was small, the necessary cooperation can be established when it is “a good friend over the way to go.”

(taken from the Canadian “star of life”)