Was Robin Dunbar right about his number?

And Why the Dunbar Number matters in 2022 and beyond.

In 1993 Robin Dunbar published a paper that changed our views of human relationships permanently. He suggested that humans could only really handle about 150 stable relationships at any one time. It doesn't matter if you've got thousands of friends on Facebook or Twitter, he says - there's no way you can be close to thousands of people simultaneously. D…