Marlow on Facebook social circles

...stolen from an Economist article, featuring insights gleaned by Cameron Marlow, FB's in-house sociologist/anthropologist:

"What mainly goes up [through the use of Social nets and tech], therefore, is not the core network [of friends] but the number of casual contacts that people track more passively."

"Humans may be advertising themselves more efficiently. But they still have the same small circles of intimacy as ever."

Interesting.

Comments

[Brad Berens]

this was useful, thanks.