A good friend will lie for you in court if you committed murder. A true friend will help you bury the body. --Doug
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Nicholas Thompson < [email protected]> wrote: > Owen, > > Not convinced. I think you are describing "buddies," "colleagues", > "acquaintances", ie, people with whom you share an interests in a > relatively narrow context. > > A friend, on my account, is a person with whom one shares committment to > one another's mutual well-being, as well as many common interests, a > division of labor, and means of solving interpersonal problems that arise. > > I certainly don't have 200 friends. > > N > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, > Clark University ([email protected]) > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/> > http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe] > > > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Owen Densmore <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]>; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity > Coffee Group <[email protected]> > > Date: 11/25/2009 10:26:49 AM > > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Dunbar numbers and distributions > > > > On Nov 25, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > > <snip> > > > Nobody has a hundred friends, so the word, friend, is being > > > extended in a creepy Orwellian way to include strangers. > > > > I disagree. I was surprised to find just how many work, family, > > school, church, complexity, .. friends I *do* have. > > > > I just started facebook a few days ago, and I'm finding a huge number > > of non-stranger, non-virtual acquaintances I have. I'm trying to keep > > the list "quality" high .. i.e. only include folks who I really do > > know and enjoy being in touch with. > > > > I'll easily top 200. So would anyone I think who's got diverse > > contexts mentioned above. No strangers. And not including everyone I > > do know just to keep the list tight. > > > > -- Owen > > > >
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