"Why Facebook won't get you any more friends" Professor Robin Dunbar, University of Oxford

20 April 2017, 17:30 - 18:30 Speaker: Robin Dunbar, Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, University of Oxford. A public talk on the effect of social media on our social circles Social media from Facebook to WhatsApp have revolutionised our social lives in less than a decade. Yet, claims to the contrary notwithstanding, they haven’t in fact increased the size of our social circles. These remain resolutely fixed at a typical value of 150 (with a range from about 100-250, reflecting the difference between introverts and extroverts). Why is this?