# how many people do people know? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 21, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-do-people-know/51130 "2001-01-21T15:40:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a6a055/32.png) [@zub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zub)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-do-people-know/51130/1 "2001-01-21T15:40:53Z")
this is really an interesting thought how many people, on an average does a person know? lets include relatives, friends and others (such as tv personalities etc) any answers?? ---
**Author:** ![Turpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Turpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turpentine)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-do-people-know/51130/2 "2001-01-21T16:51:30Z")
Funny you should ask. I made a list of everybody i knew five years ago,but I only included people that I have actually met and spoken to (it counts as long as they knew you as well and you had some sort of exchange). I still add to my list because i want to see how big it can get, and right now i have 1,047 people. 38 of them are named Mike, 19 are named Jannifer, 14 Matthews, 9 Rebeccas and 9 Richards. There are sure to be a few duplicates in my list, but I figure that the duplicates make up for the few people i have forgotten (though I must have a very good memory to remember 1,047 people). ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-do-people-know/51130/3 "2001-01-21T21:00:49Z")
It looks like this has been cross-posted over in General Questions, and since that one has more responses I locking this one off.