Is he your Best Friend Forever…or just the dude who fixes your car?

When it comes to Facebook, the term “friends” is a pretty loose one. After all, it just takes a click to add a name and before you know it, your Friends list has swelled from 15 people to 1,399 in a matter of days.

Seriously? Can you remember 1,399 names and birthdays? We didn’t think so.

In reality, the number of friendships and stable relationships people can have is a lot less – a fact one start-up company is banking on to create a new social platform, Path, as highlighted in the New York Times article, Start-up plans a more personal social network

The article states that Dave Morin, who helped build the Facebook Connect and Facebook Platform, is not working on another social network, but a personal network, one that focuses on a user’s tight-knit friendship circle, with each user not allowed more than 50 friends.

Morin, whose company went public this month with an iPhone app that allows users to share cell phone pictures, said it’s all about the number of people a person actually knows and trusts, as inspired by the studies of British anthropologist, Robin Dunbar.

“Path, along with the other apps, wants to build a broader mobile network, not just photo-sharing apps. It envisions people using a new mobile social network, in addition to Facebook, to share photos, videos and other things with a close-knit group.”

Smartsourcing Global has experience in creating apps for various platforms, including Facebook, as well as apps for the iPhone. If you want to go the way of the Path and focus on a target market, Smartsourcing Global experts can help you reach that goal through its customized applications and consumer driven knowledge.

So could this be the trend of the future – limiting who you know and what you share about yourself? Sure Facebook allows users to limit their friends, but Path’s idea is to truly know who you call a friend.

So if you are discovering much to your shock that half your friends are other people’s pets – it’s time to re-think your personal network. It might also explain why you were not invited to Rosco’s puppy party.