I feel like my Dunbar number has been able to stay mostly the same and I’m still in contact and snapchat with my roommate from when I attended Colby-Sawyer College. Even though it’s been about a year and I probably won’t see her again. In this quote, “Dunbar agrees, that networks like Facebook are changing the nature of human interaction. ‘What Facebook does and why it’s been so successful in so many ways is it allows you to keep track of people who would otherwise effectively disappear,’ he said.” (Konnikova, “Limits of Friendship”). My roommate from CSC and my friends that are from boarding school would essentially disappear without Snapchat, Instagram, or even having a personal phone number.
Argument: You can’t have a friendship anymore online. There needs to be a social in person connection fully. They must be in at least a 10 mile radius of you. You can’t maintain a friendship through social media because it is very far from being around the person in the same active community.
Response: These connections have fallen though in my social life, because they aren’t present and I didn’t have a substantial physical connection with my roommate from CSC, like I did with my friend from boarding school. But through social media I can keep around them and still interact with them. Instead of our friendship completely disappearing.
