Tag: social media
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The Future of Social Networking on the Human Tech podcast
In this episode of the Human Tech podcast we talk about the recent backlash against social networking companies, and what the future may look like as a result.
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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…
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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.…
