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How do people get so many "friends" on facebook? - AidenInHeaven - 11-09-2012 10:58 AM Seriously, I have relatives and friends who have over 1000 people on their facebook friends list. They're college students as I am myself but it's hard to believe people actually know that many people. I only have about 70 people on FB, and as much as I couldn't care less about making this a popularity contest, I just want to know how these people manage to pull it off. Is there something fishy going on? - T-Rain - 11-09-2012 11:06 AM just search for random people and ask to be friend. I can guareente you that 1/2 of those 1000 friends are not really their friends. btw if you can please sign up to this game http://www.unforgivenwar.com/register.php?REF=130425 - Sirex - 11-09-2012 11:06 AM An average human being will usually have a maximum circle of 200 friends. Facebook is another story, people just keep adding anyone they get invites from. - JOHN C - 11-09-2012 11:06 AM It gives their pathetic lives a sense of importance! - Jim - 11-09-2012 11:06 AM Some young people use artificial "friend adders" which presumably add a heap of total stranger to the friends list. Seem a bizarre concept to me as each one of the 1,600 friends on my MySpace were either individually accepted or individally requested - Yo Gramma - 11-09-2012 11:06 AM I have 520 friends all legitimately people I know. It's called being outgoing, ,social and friendly. - Fanaticallace738 - 11-09-2012 11:06 AM Nope. Some people are serial friend adders. Quite a lot I would go on a night out, or whatever, and randomly get talking to someone in my town who I don't know. The next day, when I log onto FB, they have added me as a friend. I also get random people who went to my school, but weren't in my year adding me. And the weirdest of all, I get plain randomers adding me who absolutely could not know me as they don't even come from the same country as me. Some people just use it as a popularity contest, but realistically, having a huge friend list, full of people you don't know, does not make you popular. - BLANK - 11-09-2012 11:06 AM The silly thing with that large number of facebook friends is that those that have more than 1,000/500 friends sometimes have an empty facebook wall, people don't write to them , vice versa. in that case it is pretty obvious that they just add random people. I could have had more than 200 friends on facebook. These people would have been high school and college friends, however, although I know them (small college, small High school) I only add those that I were very close to . I keep my facebook contact to 119 and I feel that it is a lot . |