General Discussion

He's actually pretty good at keeping track of them - and it's related to his job.

I don't keep track of all of 513 mine all of the time. Probably 25% are from one or another health care groups. We collect medical unicorns in my family - and the support groups help us keep tabs on the minimal information there is about these rare conditions. I connect with them mostly around conferences (and I know most of them in person).

Another quarter are family (we have thanksgiving pictures with 100+ people in them - and that's descendants from 1/4 of my spouse's 4 sets of grandparents). Keeping track of them is a mixure of in person/telephone/emal and facebook.

Probably another 1/4 are former students - they tend to drift off over time, but one of the ones I see most graduated in 2013.

That leaves the remaining quarter for mostly Quakers/Queer Quakers I also see once a year aside from the past year, plus assorted other high school friends, etc.

Most of my facebook are also real life friends or acquaintances. Just as I wouldn't expect to have daily conversations with all of my friends in person, I don't expect to see them/hear from them online every day. But facebook lets me keep more in touch than I would without t.