Saved by Rachel Ooi
The Friendship Dip
the socio-emotional theory of friendship (which suggests that we become more and more selective as we grow older to focus on those few emotionally valuable friendships)
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
there was a steady linear decline in network size (in this case, indexed by the number of friends on Facebook) from around 250 in eighteen- to twenty-four-year-olds to seventy-three in the fifty-five-plus age group,
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
It was interesting for me to observe how friendships disintegrated because I can no longer relate to my work. A large part of it was due to my own effort to distance myself, but I still observed how there used to be countless requests to meet up for coffee (sometimes to “pick my brain”) that dwindled once people realised I was no longer interested ... See more