Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'
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Back when I was in elementary school, I didn't have many friends.
There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.
Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you're connected to everybody. You've got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don't actually talk to anybody. You're not close to anybody.
Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.
I had 60,000 friends on MySpace.
A lot of people that I've had around me have been my closest friends since junior high, back when we were exchanging each other's clothes, staying at each other's houses. That was before I had anything.
At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.
We live in a world where many of us have a lot of friends on Facebook but yet we have lost human connection.
I, at high school, had a very select group of friends. I am still pretty tight with them now. I definitely have a lot more friends than I remember when I go back home!
The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
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