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You only know about 200 of them and only really care about 30 or 40? Seriously, I already saw a couple of my friends having +1000 friends and it made me say WOW.. but at the same time, WTF?



Also, I expect this thread to backfire on me like every other thread I make in the Off-Topic :P
 
Yeah, I'm selective about the people I "friend" on Facebook. If I don't like them IRL, I'm not friending them. My friend list is pretty short :lol
 
Mik2121 said:
You only know about 200 of them and only really care about 30 or 40? Seriously, I already saw a couple of my friends having +1000 friends and it made me say WOW.. but at the same time, WTF?



Also, I expect this thread to backfire on me like every other thread I make in the Off-Topic :P
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Makes it easier to hook up with strangers at truckstops when you have a connection to everyone. What better way than Facebook?
 
I barely use my facebook. Only 19 friends or whatever. Don't care too much about it... it's largely a time waster imo.
 
Attention whore's epeen. I already think the 70 something FB friends I have are too much, will make some "room" pretty soon.

Note that those people with a million FB friends always have their profile on "public".
 
I mean I joined facebook like 5 years ago and just have naturally worked my way to 700+ friends, all of whom I've known before and talked to (mix of high school and college). I see it as a great way to keep in touch with friends and relatives (i have some who i've never seen in person before) that are all over the world.

So to answer your question, if you just joined you'll have a few friends. But after a while the amount of friends just creep up on you.
 
In the coming year, I'm going to make my friends list explode so I can spam them all about my books, but that's the only reason. I only have people I know on there.
 
People I don't even recognize who apparently went to my high school are after me now.

No one even LIKED me in high school.
 
networking. Randomly accepting friends have helped me net about 15 good friends. You also recognize people from the book at clubs and can hit them up later. I mean.. what are the downsides to having a lot of friends?
 
My number is climbing, but it's on the account of meeting new folks and not deleting ones I have no interest in talking to anymore.

Ela Hadrun said:
People I don't even recognize who apparently went to my high school are after me now.

No one even LIKED me in high school.
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Heh, yeah that makes me laugh. I used to get a bunch and I honestly have no idea who some of these people are anymore.
 
The Abominable Snowman said:
networking. Randomly accepting friends have helped me net about 15 good friends. You also recognize people from the book at clubs and can hit them up later. I mean.. what are the downsides to having a lot of friends?
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It completely devalues the word "friend". It also signals to some people that you're less likely to see the individual value of the people you meet and/or are more concerned about inflating your e-penis than making meaningful connections with the people you know.
 
I have over 300, but the hottest girls have over 1000. Why is this? Because guys like me add them, and they are too nice to say no.....to a simple facebook request
 
btkadams said:
one of my friends has 15,000 friends. no joke. but he's also a world famous dj so maybe that's why....
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Is it a fan club? I thought there was a limit of 5000 friends one person can have on Facebook.
 
perfectchaos007 said:
I have over 300, but the hottest girls have over 1000. Why is this? Because guys like me add them, and they are too nice to say no.....to a simple facebook request
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Or because they love the attention?
 
strange_booj said:
Or because they love the attention?
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i don't know about that. I doubt most of these girls look for friends to add, the friends just come to them ( because they are hot ) and they don't see a reason to reject the friend requests thats all. I have 300+ friends and only about 50 of them did I ask to be their friend. The other 250 were people who asked me to be their friend. I'm just making the point that no one really rejects friend requests regardless unless their pic looks like a scary old man.
Ignore my Ron Paul avatar
 
I agree, i shake my head when i see people with 1000+ friends.

I have barely more than 100 and i think is too much, and i reject a good amount of friend requests.
 
The Abominable Snowman said:
networking. Randomly accepting friends have helped me net about 15 good friends. You also recognize people from the book at clubs and can hit them up later. I mean.. what are the downsides to having a lot of friends?
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Your friends tagging you in a bunch of photos you don't want almost complete strangers seeing? And untagging those photos only works if you actually do it before everyone sees them.

cubicle47b said:
Because you can easily miss the updates from your real friends in the clutter caused by a thousand people.
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And this. But more so because I wouldn't give a shit what those people would be up to and I don't want any more application spam than I already get.
 
Yeah I think I have like 50something friends added but I barely check Facebook and everytime I go everything is so full of feeds, invites, pokes and whatever that it's kinda hard to read. The fact that they keep changing the main page and now I have no clue how to check the list of groups I'm part of makes me want to check this site even less..
 
Fersis said:
Fixed.
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Well, actually I have some friends back in Spain who don't use much MSN so the only way to know about them is via Facebook.. ugh.. Of course, those friends aren't like super close friends, you know.. so I can stay one or two months without checking Facebook and I don't feel bad nor anything, obviously.
 
The same retarded reason people collect "friends" on myspace. Back in 2006 when I was still a grad student, I got to witness "facebook popularity" among a bunch of undergrads. They were actually valuing their "importance" based on how many facebook friends they had. They even nitpicked how they had even more friends based on the tab that showed how many people they were friends out of the network. I have 25 friends on facebook and they are my closets friends that live a good deal of distance from me or family. That's it as they are the only people I want in my business and want to keep in touch with. Still hate facebook tho.
 
Mik2121 said:
Well, actually I have some friends back in Spain who don't use much MSN so the only way to know about them is via Facebook.. ugh.. Of course, those friends aren't like super close friends, you know.. so I can stay one or two months without checking Facebook and I don't feel bad nor anything, obviously.
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I was joking man. :D
Lately have been lots of facebook related threads and always someone says somthing like that.
 
I'm ambivalent about Facebook and so far I've kept my friends list very limited but, just to play devil's advocate, there's not really that significant a difference between having a lot of "friends" on facebook vs. having a popular blog or standalone website where you don't traditionally have that kind of access control. Granted, it dilutes the meaning of "friend" considerably and I think that's the real downside to it.
 
I mentioned this in another thread about facebook 'friends' - but some of the apps on there are pretty dependent on the amount of friends you have which are using the same app.

Again, using my example of Superpoke Pets; the more friends I have that use that app, the more coins I can get each day, which means I can buy more furniture and toys for my pet to decorate it's habitat.

So I specifically 'friend' people who also have Superpoke Pets. Right now I have only befriended 70 or so people this way; but I will probably friend more in the future, or accept friend invitations from other Superpoke Pets members.

So some people are probably also growing their friendlist through the different apps. Superpoke Pets is just one app; multiply that by how many ever and you can see how someone would have a lot of friends just for their apps alone.
 
It doesn't make any sense to me either. I added a co-worker the other day and he immediately replied with, wow you only have 250 friends on Facebook? Checking his profile, he had over 800. It was just sad that he felt the need to belittle me over something so trivial.

That said, I need to remove a bunch of people from my list. As someone mentioned, the news feed starts getting cluttered with people I don't care about. Unless the new FB has an existing feature then I won't have to waste the time filtering through my list.
 
demonix69 said:
It doesn't make any sense to me either. I added a co-worker the other day and he immediately replied with, wow you only have 250 friends on Facebook? Checking his profile, he had over 800. Are people this sad that they need to make it known how many Facebook friends they have?

That said, I need to remove a bunch of people from my list. As someone mentioned, the news feed starts getting cluttered with people I don't care about. Unless the new FB has an existing feature then I won't have to waste the time filtering through my list.
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"Only" 250?

I've got 39 and could probably delete 7 of them that I'm not really friends with anymore but I was in high school/college. If someone said that to me I'd just go and delete them but then, I don't add coworkers.
 
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