Facebook - do you contact all your facebook friends?

[Terramax]

Yo!

I use Facebook just like most others, however I only have about 10 friends on it. Sure, I get invitations to become friends of friends, and some people that I've met/ known in the past but I often reject them as I've nothing to say to or I don't want to know them.

However, I've recently started feeling intimidated when I see people with 300 to 500 friends on their accounts! It makes me feel unsocial. Am I the only one who feels this way?

My question is, how many friends do other people on this forum have on facebook and how often do they keep in touch with each and every one of them/ how many do they speak to often or at all?

I've had this theory that many will simply try to befriend anyone and everyone they can, regardless of whether they even like those people or not, or even know them. Is this true?

Or is it simply how this guy describes it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFKHaFJzUb4

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

yeah,I don't use facebook.'Ell,I barely use myspace,I just like one of the game apps on it.so I'm gonna go with a solid "no"

 

[Satin6T]

I have like a hundred, no I don't talk to all of them ALL the time, but hey it's enjoyable to get in touch with a random person every now and then just to wish them a happy birthday or crap like that

 

[DrDeath3191]

Nope. I've been thinking of removing most of them.

 

[Pandalisk]

i have 30 and i dont even use facebook, but i only really know and like 6 people out of the 30

having a high friend count is like having a huge e-penis to these people, it means nothing

 

[Legion]

It means you are not a pretentious egomaniac who judges their social adequacy based on a number of people who you don't talk to but are listed as somebody who you do.

 

[JenXXXJen]

I know how you feel there. I only have about 60 friends, but I do know most of them since I'm still at school. Now perhaps I'm just an unsociable git, but I really don't understand how you get more than - say - 200 friends on there. There is no way you can talk to them all.

I just wouldn't add someone I've only had one conversation with or just met, the idea's totally inconcievable to me. Old friends I don't mind, but otherwise I'm like, "What? Yeah Ok, whatever". I just don't have the heart to say no.

 

[Subzerowings]

I once used such a social networking site. There is nothing wrong with having about ten friends. I think I can honestly say that any one with two hundred friends or more, just goes to random people's accounts, says hi, and then declares that person their friend. It quite frightening actually.

EDIT:

It means you are not a pretentious egomaniac who judges their social adequacy based on a number of people who you don't talk to but are listed as somebody who you do.

Pretty much this, yeah.

 

[Amnestic]

when I see people with 300 to 500 friends on their accounts!

That word should be in inverted commas. Just because they have the label 'friends' doesn't mean they're actually 'friends'. Generally they're acquaintances or people you've met once. I got sent a friend's request on facebook by the dickwads who bullied me throughout my last few years at school. Needless to say, rejected.

As for the video...yeah. While I don't treat it like that, I know some people who do.

 

[RedDiablo]

Really on Facebook, people add those who are on the "Recommended Friends". I know someone with over 1000 friends, but I have a feeling all she does is add people on the "Recommended Friends".

 

[Flap Jack452]

I have a few hundred, but I only accept those from my highschool (I know all of them, I go to a small school.)

It means you are not a pretentious egomaniac who judges their social adequacy based on a number of people who you don't talk to but are listed as somebody who you do.

Can you really be so narrow minded to think that that applies to every single user of a social networking site?

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

It means you are not a pretentious egomaniac who judges their social adequacy based on a number of people who you don't talk to but are listed as somebody who you do.

Exactly.

That being said, I have...474 friends. I talk constantly with around a fraction of them, I haven't ever actually added someone on Facebook before though, all of the FB fiends tend to do the work for you.

But yes, it's more about the people you actually talk to sometimes. Not all of these friends are for social merits, some are for projects and other things.

 

[Terramax]

It means you are not a pretentious egomaniac who judges their social adequacy based on a number of people who you don't talk to but are listed as somebody who you do.

Sorry to sound like an idiot but was that a positive or negative comment about me (I feel embarressed)?

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[revolverwolf]

It means you are not a pretentious egomaniac who judges their social adequacy based on a number of people who you don't talk to but are listed as somebody who you do.

Sorry to sound like an idiot but was that a positive or negative comment about me (I feel embarressed)?

It was a compliment.

Oh yeh... Anyway. 31 friends, talked to one of them using Facebook in the last God knows how long. But I do know them all personally.

 

[SnowCold]

Meh, I accept every freind invite in facebook, since I don't use it very offten. if by me adding them, I can them feel like better human beings, why not.

 

[Legion]

It means you are not a pretentious egomaniac who judges their social adequacy based on a number of people who you don't talk to but are listed as somebody who you do.

Sorry to sound like an idiot but was that a positive or negative comment about me (I feel embarressed)?

I consider it positive. I think it is a little sad for people to go round adding people randomly just so it looks like they are popular. You shouldn't judge how sociable/likeable you are by your number of "friends" on a social networking site.

Hell, I have been added by people I knew in school who I couldn't stand and from what I was aware, didn't like me much either. Needless to say I declined.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

It means you are not a pretentious egomaniac who judges their social adequacy based on a number of people who you don't talk to but are listed as somebody who you do.

Sorry to sound like an idiot but was that a positive or negative comment about me (I feel embarressed)?

I consider it positive. I think it is a little sad for people to go round adding people randomly just so it looks like they are popular. You shouldn't judge how sociable/likeable you are by your number of "friends" on a social networking site.

Hell, I have been added by people I knew in school who I couldn't stand and from what I was aware, didn't like me much either. Needless to say I declined.

The things that always make me take a step back are the people who have over a thousand photos. I just...sit and stare really. But either way, you're right and I agree.