Facebook’s “In-House Sociologist” Shares Stats on Users’ Social Behavior

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- The average male Facebook user with 120 friends:
  
  Leaves comments on 7 friends’ photos, status updates, or wall
  Messages or chats with 4 friends
  Leaves comments on 10 friends’ photos, status updates, or wall
  Messages or chats with 6 friends
  Leaves comments on 17 friends’ photos, status updates, or wall
  Messages or chats with 10 friends
  Leaves comments on 26 friends’ photos, status updates, or wall
  Messages or chats with 16 friends
- broadcasting their lives to an outer tier of acquaintances who aren’t necessarily inside the Dunbar circle
17 Mar 09

Meredith FitzGerald
The famous Dunbar number, or “theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships”, is generally accepted to be about 150. However, in a recent interview with The Economist, Cameron Marlow, a research scientist at Facebook, shared some interesting stats on Facebook users’ social behavior patterns.

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05 Mar 09

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The average male Facebook user with 500 friends:\n * Leaves comments on 17 friends' photos, status updates, or wall;\n * Messages or chats with 10 friends.\nThe average female Facebook user with 500 friends:\n * Leaves comments on 26 friends' photos, status updates, or wall;\n * Messages or chats with 16 friends.

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02 Mar 09

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- Facebook users comment on stuff from only about 5-10% of their Facebook friends.
- Facebook users comment on stuff from only about 5-10% of their Facebook friends
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- - People who are members of online social networks are not so much ‘networking’ as they are ‘broadcasting their lives to an outer tier of acquaintances who aren’t necessarily inside the Dunbar circle,’
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The famous Dunbar number, or “theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships”, is generally accepted to be about 150. However, in a recent interview with The Economist, Cameron Marlow, a research scientist at Facebook, shared some interesting stats on Facebook users’ social behavior patterns.

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Brief, statistics about Facebook activity with friends - “People who are members of online social networks are not so much ‘networking’ as they are ‘broadcasting their lives to an outer tier of acquaintances who aren’t necessarily inside the Dunbar circle,’” Lee Rainie, the director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, says. via grunsten on Twitter

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