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

[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

[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