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My biggest takeaway from this semester is the number of friends you have on social media versus the number of friends you have in person. I had an experience when I was in secondary school; there was a well-known person on social media in town. Every time I would ask people about that particular person, they informed me that in school, this person was very kept to themselves and was an introvert but outside of the school, she was this well-known person on social media. Going back to Dunbar‘s theory about how Everyone who has 150 friends on social media talks to about 50 of those 150 people, and out of those 50 friends, only 15 are considered good friends, and out of those 15 good friends, five are considered close friends. My young self assumed that since this individual was prevalent on social media, they must have many friends in person, but in reality, it wasn’t the case. This made me realize that you can’t always trust what you see on social media because, in the scenario, as it turns out, the person was not too close to the majority of people they had on social media.


-Antony Kaseba

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  1. Teagan HaggertyDecember 17, 2022 at 11:55 AM

    Your discussion post intrigued me as you brought up some interesting points regarding Dunbar's number in relation to celebrities. Even though celebrities' amount of followers surpasses the 150 mark, it seems like they have a lot of friends portraying their extroverted side of them on social media, but this isn't always accurate in real life. Some of the Youtube creators I watch, like Emma Chamberlain, has over 11.9 million subscribers; she demonstrates throughout her youtube videos that she is very introverted and doesn't really like to leave her house to socialize. This relates to how people show a different persona on social media than in real life and the inauthentic ways influencers do to blend in with the rest of social media influencers but putting on a fake extroverted persona. Do you think that celebrities or influencers give a fake extroverted persona, like Emma Chamberlain on social media, or are they portraying their real selves?

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