Friends? No, this sounds more like the number of people you can reasonably remember by name. Not necessarily friends.
It's a Facebook definition of friends.
Theres no fucking way i can remember 300 people. It will take myself years until I even know all of them. Its been 4 months and I still don't even know more than maybe 10 Persons from my semester so it will take forever to get to know that much people.
It's crazy to think that while we now live in a globalized, interconnected society with billions of peoples yet Dunbar's hasn't changed from when we formed tribes and harmlets thousands of years ago.
A lot of the structures and institutions of modern society essentially center around somehow overcoming or side stepping Dunbar's number: to reliably interact with strangers, ease tensions and achieve greater things (from credit scores to spelling dictionaries to standard sizes to clothing to electing representatives to wikis to opening hours, calendars and time zones; the list goes on an on).
TWO friends??? What do they think I am??? Tolerant enough of other peoples bullshit to be friends with TWO people??? Psssshhhh, let's work on me tolerating ONE person first, before you try to double that number.
I'm not sure if it was ever said that you couldn't be your own friend, so maybe that kind of gives you something to start with.
That said, you'd of course have to kind of get along with yourself first. Dunno if I could, tbh.
