Social networking - 'Friends'

[Casanova]

I was thinking about this recently when I got chatting to a friend on facebook. He had posted something and said 'i'll text you i don't know what nosey parkers are looking at this'.

What he was implying was he had a vast amount of 'friends' which were no more than glorified randomers whom had friend requested him and he'd simply accepted; yet didn't know them?

It completely defies the point of social networking to have a friends list full of anything but friends?
Myself personally I have about 90 friends on facebook but about 50 pending requests from people i knew and no longer talk to, don't know, or don't want to know no more.

I don't add people i dislike or don't know. All of my friends on all social platforms I use are true friends whom i socialise with, know and do like.

What about yourself? are you yet another facebook ***** who has no 'real' friends on your list? Are you as fussy as me?
What are your feelings on the 'social' sides of facebook and the likes where people generally don't know those they have on their lists?

[Mathew]

I only add people I know on Facebook. Really wouldn't accept people who just add me randomly :P

[Conservative,]

I know everyone on my Facebook which is 450+ but I'm not fussy enough to reject people I don't particularly like as long as I know them

[buttons]

i have 555 friends on fbook.
know them all bar 3 from online & maybe 20 at the most that i haven't met but are friends of friends.
i only accept people i know anyway......
but i have people years younger, years older, from different colleges & different schools.

everyone talks to everyone round the towns here even if we don't personally hang out so w/e

[Casanova]

I'm aware some people may have wider social circles or a different community to others, but for instance I've got a friend with seven hundred friends on his facebook. He knows about 200 of them, had to create a new one for his "friends". Completely defeats the purpose of social networking to me. I'm aware you have to widen your fields and it can enhance stuff but still, it's overkill!

I guess I'm just fussy on who i add :P

[Deak]

I've got 181 friends and I know all of them as we were at school / college together or they are my friends or family...

if i get a friend request and i don't know who they are then I reject it straight away

[GoldenMerc]

I try keep it to people i talk to often, or like. I have about 4-5 people from online such as jen,leah,jake,billy,billys sister

[Arron]

I have a random guy on Facebook who has around 4,000+ friends. He goes by the name of Misawa on this forum :)

I generally accept people I know or have heard of into my friends list - I think it's easier to talk to online first, then go on to talk to them at a party, for instance, then become better friends from there. I have around 575 friends.

[immense]

i have too many hxf peeps i was worried when i saw i had 20 mutuals with someone from hxf lol

[mr.tom]

OR it could be someone he knew that doesn't want it seen btw....

only add people i've met in real life or have spoken to on msn or anything

[kdg-guy]

I usually accept anybody that I personally know, unless they're really weird or an annoyance, or if I just don't like them.

People I don't know (that are friends of friends) end up on there every now and then, too.

[immense]

saying that though i reject more people than i accept

[Casanova]

same. and i don't add anyone i haven't met in real life. for instance, i refused ben just the other day :P HAHAHA BEN. xox

[Arron]

Some random people who want me to accept them as a friend do actually get accepted, for a minute - while I scan their profile for things like Age, Location, Photos and Statuses. Most of the time people are like 32, no location on the info page, nor Statuses or Photos. So I just remove them instantly :)

[GommeInc]

I only add people who I feel friendly enough to let them have my phone number, so literally people I know or talk to often.

[GoldenMerc]

Like me obv gomme

[Eoin247]

I have just under 200 facebook freinds and i only add people i personaly know bar 3 or 4 people i got to be really good freinds with online.

Although i have freinds who add pretty much everybody they have some connection to (his freinds, sisters sons wife lol :) )

[Rapidshare]

I accept or add people I have seen in real life, I have a few who I havent spoken to at all (Like fit girls and that in my area LMAO) but yeh..I did meet my girlfriend 18/19 months ago and she was from myspace and facebook. To me, facebook is to share common along ourselfs so aslong your chatting to me or have atleast a input in my life then you will be on my facebook.

[Special]

got 400 friends all of which i have met & spoken too

i reject the people i don't know

[Misawa]

I have 4,500 contacts on Facebook. I know about 500 personally and the rest are all somehow film-related, so I only accept people (I never request anyone) who have a large amount of mutual friends with me. But now I've had to get Facebook to cap me so when people friend request me, a message pops up taht says they have to know me, else they'll be banned from ever requesting me again and get in trouble with Facebook or something. Still, most people on my list are very cool and kick up good conversations on my status feeds when I'm promotin Screenjabber content and the like. The only downside is when people lobby me for jobs - they get deleted then.

[Jordy]

Got 287 friends on Facebook, and I've spoke to them all in real life :) - Three were friends from online but seeing as I've met them in real now I can count them like any other friend.

I've loosened up a bit in recent months as I wanted more friends on Facebook so I added people I hadn't spoken to for a while or didn't talk to much but it's not like I'm accepting randomers or anything.

I used to have some sort of a policy when it came to Facebook friends that if I wouldn't say hello to them on the street then they're not worth adding but tbh there's a few people I wouldn't bother with these days.

[rnix]

I have 4,500 contacts on Facebook. I know about 500 personally and the rest are all somehow film-related, so I only accept people (I never request anyone) who have a large amount of mutual friends with me. But now I've had to get Facebook to cap me so when people friend request me, a message pops up taht says they have to know me, else they'll be banned from ever requesting me again and get in trouble with Facebook or something. Still, most people on my list are very cool and kick up good conversations on my status feeds when I'm promotin Screenjabber content and the like. The only downside is when people lobby me for jobs - they get deleted then.

We didn't want you to post how "great" you are on facebook ;/

On-topic:
i have 133 friends, mainly because i have no old school friends on there anymore which dropped like 300? but i know everyone on my list cept like 3/4?

[Callum.]

To be honest, having that many facebook friends is quite tame compared to some of the older social networks like myspace and bebo. People used to have friends on the for the sake of having friends, people have thousands and thousands of randomers, no talk, ever. With Facebook I have 300 of friends and people I know, not randomers. I might like some more than other, may have only seen a few the once and then they've added me but it's all people I know, or know me.

As long as they're not complete randomers (asian girls normally for guys, and turkish people for girls) then I see no real problem with have people you don't know too well. It's a good way to keep in touch with those you may not originally wanted to.

[Rixion]

I have 800, of which I know around half, most of the rest are friends of friends or people around my area, around 40 randoms. ><

[immense]

I have nobody who I don't know anything about. I never accept random requests or people like my mums friends and teachers. Admittedly I probably have about 40 online people though. I have 350ish friends on there.

[velvet]

I have about 90 or so friends on Facebook, a few of those are from online but most are irl friends. I only really add people I speak to regularly or old friends that I want to spy on, lol.

[Misawa]

Apparently I can't give an honest answer to a question... Everyone who -repped me please get a reality check.

[GommeInc]

Apparently I can't give an honest answer to a question... Everyone who -repped me please get a reality check.


They minus repped you because you have 4,000+ friends? Interesting... I'm sure there are more important things in life, especially when you can easily prove it. Infact, you could and get your -rep removed, as well as mock them :P

[Misawa]

I can't be bothered, rep means nothing to me, I just think it's incredibly sad for them to do that in principle.

[PaulMacC]

i have 555 friends on fbook.
know them all bar 3 from online & maybe 20 at the most that i haven't met but are friends of friends.
i only accept people i know anyway......
but i have people years younger, years older, from different colleges & different schools.

everyone talks to everyone round the towns here even if we don't personally hang out so w/e
I'm one of those *\o/*

I have 400 friends, 30 of which I've met online through YouTube, Habbo and stuff. The rest I know. I get 5-10 new requests daily cause I post videos and stuff, decline 'em all.

[Samantha]

I have about 20/30 that are from online.
One person I do not know, he's called Tom and the reason I kept him on is I did something for him on bebo years ago, and on facebook he has my ex best friend from infants who moved away, and also my cousin, even though each live in different counties I still kept him on.

I then have old high school friends, some who have gone to a different college than me, some who haven't.
I then have new college friends, I also have some people from my sisters year also.


If they had a weird name, or something of the sort, I wouldn't add them as a fear of a virus, or a paedo.

[Josh]

I only add people I would talk to in real life. I know most people, but I don't talk to them and that's how it will remain online.

[Oleh]

I have about 470 friends and i know about 380 of them, i added alot for mafia wars but i was careful to create 2 lists and put all those into a list what cannot see anything from me

[Eoin247]

Apparently I can't give an honest answer to a question... Everyone who -repped me please get a reality check.

I think people - repped you because the post sounded real cocky, however i'm sure you didn't mean it that way. :)

[wiktoria]

I only add people I know on fb. Some people from my school have 1,000+ friends I think they are simply trying to look popular :P

[Jessicrawrr]

I have 234 people on my friend list.
probably around five of them i don't know personally, but they have over 100 friends so I add/accept them.
I think personally it's quite sad how people have over like 1000 friends.

[Nicola]

Everyone I have on my facebook I know one way or another, whether it's just I met them on a night out through friends or if they went to one of my old schools.

I don't add people I don't know at all.

[Nemo]

I know everyone on my facebook, think i have 3 online, rest are either from primary/secondary school/college or ive met through other friends. No one i dont know at all. Got 187 friends.

Oh my is that all :p

[Jamesy]

I only have people I like or at least know some what. Sometimes people crop up I've accepted in the past who just post **** and I remove them.

[beth]

I think people - repped you because the post sounded real cocky, however i'm sure you didn't mean it that way. :)

oh he probably did.

i got near enough 500 and i know them all, theres about 4 from online that i haven't met, and have been speaking to for years.
the rest are from school, college, uni, dance schools, etc etc.