It takes roughly 200 hours to become best friends with someone, according to science

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• The most effective way of becoming someone's best friend is by spending more time with them, according to new research.
• You have to clock about 200 hours before you're worthy of the "BFF" title.
• Of course, no relationship boils down to maths alone, but it could increase your chances.

It's a high honour to be called someone's best friend — just look at the way characters in sitcoms like Friends and How I Met Your argue over which of the gang is their best friend. But the criteria for someone fitting the role of "BFF" is hard to define.

Until now, that is, as a researcher from the University of Kansas thinks he has cracked the code.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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