How many people you think you can know in your life?

Does it count only knowing some people or really getting more than their names and work and really be friends with them? I mean if we try to break it down to possibilities so we can actually try to see how much people we know in our enter life.. then we should (1) consider how many relatives you know, have met and have talked to, (2) so you live in a neighborhood of how many families and count those too, (3) you go to school so let's include schoolmates and teachers and classmates whom you have smiled at and talked a bit about campus life, etc. Include your prep school, middle school, high school, tertiary life so this is already a lot! (4) include your friends' friends that you probably hanged out with even for just a few times. (5) in the grocery store, you must have always frequent a certain shop or shops for your hobby, etc... so count the people there too... (6) include the people you met wen you started working, so how many companies have you worked for (7) you must have worked with another company's employees too especially if your work is sales or if you are the sales provider. (8) now there is the online avenue and you must have met and chatted with a few people too. and really the list goes on. and on! :D

It depends from what you really mean for "know". Do you mean met, or those people who you really know a lot? If we are talking about all the people we meet in our life I could say they could be more than 100.000 and again that changes from person to person, some people are just much more sociable others have a more active social life, or a job that keeps them in contact with lots of people all day long. Other people like to be on their own so those will meet less people in their lifetime. About knowing really people I think then the number decreases drastically, I don't think we ever get to know somebody 100%, we may know some one well but not very many people.

It is difficult to count the number of people one meets in one's life time right from the time one is born till he/she breathes the last breath. It could run into thousands but sadly as time moves on they drift into mere memory leaving just a handful.

It is difficult to keep a count of everyone you come across. I have had playmates in my childhood. Then I had friends in school and colleges. Then there were people living in my locality. I moved about from places to places. I had my colleagues. I met people when I went abroad. Now I have net friends whom I met personally. I do not thing the number of people I have known in my life would be more than 1000.