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What's the actual size of your personal social network? Some numbers

In 1992 Robin Dunbar proposed a rough estimate of 150. But the “Dunbar’s number” pretty much doubled in 1998, when Peter Killworth suggested a mean personal network size of 290. And in 2010 that number doubled again, as Matthew Salganik came up with 610 personal. So who says 1,200?