Counter-bet: it is not that people are increasingly fluid with their social group, but that traditional social groups are radically being de-based. (haha word funny) If we are re-applying the YouGov data with Dunbar's Circle, it is that the 15 "close but not best" friend layer, the ones with asymmetrically more diversity, are being ended in favor of 50 "just friends" (or even acquaintance) of semi-coherent collective goals. The utility of each layer changed rather the number of people within the layer. A longer response for why friendships are less of a thing now: https://www.secretorum.life/p/friendship-forever/comment/11490135
Counter-bet: it is not that people are increasingly fluid with their social group, but that traditional social groups are radically being de-based. (haha word funny) If we are re-applying the YouGov data with Dunbar's Circle, it is that the 15 "close but not best" friend layer, the ones with asymmetrically more diversity, are being ended in favor of 50 "just friends" (or even acquaintance) of semi-coherent collective goals. The utility of each layer changed rather the number of people within the layer. A longer response for why friendships are less of a thing now: https://www.secretorum.life/p/friendship-forever/comment/11490135