i've got... 6 friends on Facebook. all but one are people i know from college. the 6th is someone on here, but i forget who...a girl...
How do you have 743 friends at age 16?
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That's insane!
I have 3 people on mine. And one being an ex-gf I havent got round to removing yet.
And I liked it better that way. All those "25 things about me" surveys are making it way to myspacey. The shit people reveal on those things is either shallow, TMI, or just plain retarded.
Before I got tired of facebook, I didn't have more than about 27 friends. Most of those were people I knew in High School, a few from college, and my sister. Of those, there were maybe a half dozen or so that I spoke to often enough to count as friends.
I've friended old acquaintences from high school and college just to see how they're doing and what they've been up to. I guess on that end the status is nice, but I only have 161 or so "friends." In real life, that number of close "friends" is probably 2.
^Yeah, I don't "friend" people because I want to have a bigger list of friends. I do it because I am genuinely interested in what all of my former friends and acquaintances are doing with their lives. I don't necessarily reconnect or talk with them, but I do find it interesting to see the different paths everyone has taken since leaving high school.
I actually found Facebook to be a great way to get back in touch with people that I had no way to find otherwise. When I moved out of the country and got married I lost touch with so many people who had been important to me. Since my marriage broke up last year, I've reestablished a lot of real friendships through Facebook. So I've gotten a very good use out of it.
I used social networking sites for "networking" so its not just friends, it's aquantinces and people who may at some point be useful, so the numbers in both places are in the 100s... I think just under 300 on facebook, and... maybe 8-900 on Myspace? I think...
I try not to friend collect, but it happens...
I try not to friend collect, but it happens...
I just checked - I have 320 friends on Facebook, and 194 on Livejournal. (There's some overlap, of course.) I think that of everyone on Facebook, I've met and spent time with all but one (that one being a cast member from "Queer As Folk" to whom I sent a friend request on a whim, never expecting him to accept 
).
Not all of them fall into the category of what I would call real-life friends, of course. But it's a good networking tool - there are many people I've friended whom I've met through conventions, and it's helpful to be able to contact them to exchange information. Similarly, I've got several authors as Facebook friends, many of whom I've worked with when they were guests at one con or another that I've worked on. Others I've simply met at cons that I've travelled to.
Actually, someone contacted me today via Facebook - we hadn't seen each other since university, but we go all the way back to when we were 5 or 6 years old. I have another friend on Facebook whom I've known just as long - we used to build dinosaur models in my basement together.
It just propogates the rumour that I know everybody. (Not that that rumour needs help... I can't get away from it.)
).Not all of them fall into the category of what I would call real-life friends, of course. But it's a good networking tool - there are many people I've friended whom I've met through conventions, and it's helpful to be able to contact them to exchange information. Similarly, I've got several authors as Facebook friends, many of whom I've worked with when they were guests at one con or another that I've worked on. Others I've simply met at cons that I've travelled to.
Actually, someone contacted me today via Facebook - we hadn't seen each other since university, but we go all the way back to when we were 5 or 6 years old. I have another friend on Facebook whom I've known just as long - we used to build dinosaur models in my basement together.
It just propogates the rumour that I know everybody. (Not that that rumour needs help... I can't get away from it.)
Could it be because of her looks as well? It comes from my experience that maybe girls who are "hot" seem to manifest friends with ease. I found this to be true on Myspace, (I don't have an account there, but I use to browse people) and it seemed like the "hot" girls always had a lot of friends. Of course, some of the "normal" looking girls had a lot of friends, too, but not as many. I never understood this either, when I did have a Myspace account, the only friends I had on there were people I knew from work and that was only about 10 or so people. I ended up deleting my myspace account since I'm not a very big fan of these sites, anyway. If I want to contact anyone, I either just call or email them.
At least once or twice a month I get a random note from someone asking me to be their friend. They'll be from a different city, even country, and they aren't even friends with anyone I know. Just some random moron looking to add one more person to their ever-expanding list.
What a STUPID "game" to waste time playing. "Look how many friends I've got! Look how popular I am!"
Lame.
What a STUPID "game" to waste time playing. "Look how many friends I've got! Look how popular I am!"
Lame.
I currently have 116 friends on Facebook (and a smaller amount on Livejournal)
Most of them are people who I was friends with at school and university, as well as family and people I have met elsewhere and still are friends with.
(Not applicable with Livejournal though)
Most of them are people who I was friends with at school and university, as well as family and people I have met elsewhere and still are friends with.
(Not applicable with Livejournal though)
CaptainHawk1
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I haven't read the whole thread so forgive me if this has been mentioned but I know how you do it.
You offer friend requests to all of the friends of your actual friends whether you know them or not, Then you rinse and repeat
Also, you start sending friend requests to everyone you went to school with and everyone in your groups and then you send out friend requests to tall fo those people who confirmed you.
Frankly, I think it's ridiculous. I'm up to 79 and I don't add people unless I know them or we share some kind of mutual interest and I'll actually talk to them (Had a kid from my Tourette's Guy group added as a friend yesterday).
Just because the list says "Friends" it doesn't mean that they really are.
It's an abuse of the purpose of FB but I don't think anyone really believes a 16 year old has 750 friends unless she's the village bicycle.
I think some people add every single person who sends them a friends request, regardless if whether they know them or not. I don't see the point to it, though I do confess I have people on my list that I don't know personally or only through Myspace. I saw someone I knew on Myspace one that had over 45K friends. 0_o
Update- 774
I have however recently added a girl I went to school with. She like me is 24, so a few years older than 16. But, she has 4542 friends!
Ridiclious
Thing is with MySpace (never overly used it, thought it was horrible) can't you make friends with bands and celebs, etc? In the way with Facebook you either join a group or "become a fan of" bollocks
But this is actual people. Weird. I imagine this is what "facebook was better when it US colleges only etc" people fume over
I have however recently added a girl I went to school with. She like me is 24, so a few years older than 16. But, she has 4542 friends!
RidicliousThing is with MySpace (never overly used it, thought it was horrible) can't you make friends with bands and celebs, etc? In the way with Facebook you either join a group or "become a fan of" bollocks
But this is actual people. Weird. I imagine this is what "facebook was better when it US colleges only etc" people fume over
