By saying that, you've just proven who the lame one actually is. Pretty cool how that works. I have 56 facebook friends, all but 2 of which I know personally, and the ones I added that I didn't know were suggested by someone close to me. I reject requests *daily*. My facebook is too personal to add strangers just so some dumb kid will think I'm popular.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

That's a pretty stupid assumption. I don't do that. D; But, it's probably because I'm one of those *lame* people with only 120, haha. <3

by Anonymous 14 years ago

What's really stupid is accepting every add request to build a big, pointless list, so that your personal business ends up on front street... I mean I put my phone # on there, shit like that. I would never add anyone I wouldn't give my phone number to; that's my criteria.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

You're right accepting every add is stupid, but not adding the people you wouldn't give your phone number to is kind of dumb.... I mean what's the point of having a facebook if it's the same as your contacts? Knowing a large group of people can really come in handy when you least expect it

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Actually, I think the opposite... people who have ridiculously huge lists just look like attention whores. There's a limited number of people a person and reasonably expect to be able to be a good friend to, and that number is *not* over 100. Quality, not quantity, kiddies.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I didn't mean you have to necessarily have a big list of friends to think that... I have over 300 friends, yet I know each one of them. I don't know each and every one of them like the back of my hand, but I know them.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I think the best way to Judge "lame" would be to see how many people on your list you actually talk to. The more people you have added that you don't communicate with = the more pathetic your huge list of random strangers looks.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I think about 150 friends is fine, if you're a teenager. Especially once you've gone into high school. You have al your middle school friends, and your high school friends. If you're an adult, however, and you're trying to reconnect with old friends from high school and college, then about 250 friends is fine. Personally, though, I only have 70.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Yes, you can't necessarily assume that the person is lame, but you can make a certain assumption about them.... Facebook isn't exactly for your closest friends, there's a phone and texting to do that, your closest friends have your phone number. Facebook is for people you know that you might enjoy talking to every now and then. If I meet a person at work or in class, I won't give them my phone number, I use facebook to ask them questions about necessary things, so that way I don't have a huge contacts list on my phone, because I probably don't even like the person. Facebook is a controlled environment, where you can block people or remove them from your friends list as you wish for free! However, once you give your phone number to a person, one they can contact you when you don't want them to and two you can't just "block" them as easily

by Anonymous 14 years ago

You are soo right!

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Thanks

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Really? Can you name one situation where having a huge crowd of random people as friends on facebook would be useful... unless you're an aspiring artist who uses it to network and invite people to shows? I'm on the edge of my seat with anticipation...

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Yeah, when I was in school and I forgot to write down homework, I would ask students in my class what it was. There was no way I would give these people my phone number, because we weren't exactly friends, but when I did need something or vice versa, we would facebook each other

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Really? Can you name one situation where having a huge group of random people as friends on facebook would be useful... unless you're an aspiring artist who uses it to network and invite people to shows? I'm on the edge of my seat with anticipation...

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I just kind of assume they don't use facebook often. My boyfriend is never online, so his friend list is really small, just because he never checks it. Probably because he's out doing things with his friends (or me).

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I have tons of friends in real life and on facebook, after I hang out with my friends I facebook others to ask people questions, I don't check it often, but when I need it I have people that can help me out

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I think having over 400 friends is ridiculous because it shows that you want to think you are so cool because you have so many friends and don't look like a "loser." I don't use facebook as a popularity contest, I use it for keep in touch of my close friends and relatives that I don't see everyday. It nice to know what they been up to these days. People need to think about it when it comes to social network.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Haha never known on any situation were having a large FB list of “friends” is helpful at all. In fact when things go south most people you know suddenly dissapear so no yahoo from FB that you added once will give a hoot. FB is meant to be personal. People can gather a lot of info about you from FB, including your employer, scammers, random people you just added cause they requested you to. Forget it anyone with 100’s of friends whom doesn’t know a whole lot of it is a dummy who doesn’t care about their digital foot print. My policy is if I have not talked to someone in a year they gone, I keep my fiends right around 100. I have a life and can’t interact with more people than that. I don’t care for some random person I met in a plane or and outing once to see all my posts is none of their biz.

by Anonymous 5 years ago