What if we all talked—er, typed—less?

Perhaps we've gone a bit overboard with our communications

I’m a sucker for stories about Robin Dunbar. The British psychologist’s famous number denotes the general number of people you can have social relationships with: 150. Forget about 5,000 Facebook friends or a million Twitter followers. While the validity of Dunbar’s number is debated, he posits that each of us can develop 150 productive bonds in our liv…