How many people does an ordinary man meet during his life?

Question

Thanks for all answers
I mean people whom names you know, had a conversation…
An ordinary man, I think, is a man who lives in a big city, about a million people population.
Traveling… moderate. Also I want to know how quantity of new contacts depends on age (period of life).

Answer 1

The most you'll ever know are during your youth. You're forced into "society" and forced to learn the ways and means to co-exist. From that point on, once you've learned the basic rules, you continually go through life trying to find ways to shrink that grouping to as close to "yourself" as you can.

You can thus look at your highschool yearbook as a basis to start figuring. My school had 2,200 students in four grades. The folks "like me" would be the same ones in my grade so that's 1/4 the number. I might have "known" half those so I would have really known maybe 300 people through highschool. Reality tells me it was far less, but 300 is a good round number.

College, I got to pick my classes with other folks as alike me as possible. Another 100?

From there on, the numbers shrink rapidly. I picked a job with a few folks who were interested in the same exact things I was....LARGE company, too....but maybe fifty max? My later years....I might only have three to four friends.

No matter how you cut it, it comes out to far less than a thousand. Me, I've traveled far and wide and met lots of folks, too.

I can see some folks in small towns around the world that might only have met fifty or so people in their lives.

That's really a good question, Roma. Makes one think.

Answer 2

did you want a number on this ? it would be very hard to approximately give you this......
if you traveled alot as i have and still do ? gee ! the number is huge .......if you stay in one place a long time ? you are likely to meet alot of people , as i have in both cases
in my city now : i know so many people !
if you worked in a big company as i did ? thousands .yes .co-workers etc.
i would say , with my little age :-) and places ? the number would surpasse the thousandsssssssssss
:-)

Answer 3

An ordinary person can only answer this question. i am a special one:

Answer 4

I guess I'm not ordinary.