The Midnight Library Lesson Plan

What is Dunbar's number? How does Ash connect the number to social media? Do you agree with his idea?

Roger Dunbar discovered that humans were wired to know only about 150 people as that was the average size of hunter-gatherer communities. Even after that for a long while, most non-nomadic communities consisted of about 150 people. Nowadays, however, people can easily connect to that many people in just one hour on social media. Ash thinks that the more people that were connected on social media instead of having face-to-face interactions, the lonelier society was becoming. Many studies indicate that Ash's stance is correct, depending on how one interacts with social...