How many friends do you have on FaceBook and how many of them do you actually know?

[Annoyingzebra729]

As a project out of boredom, I've been going through all of my FaceBook friends and seeing who I really know. There are people at school that I've heard of or I've seen from a distance, but I don't really know. Then there are just random people that I might have just added because they were suggested to me. Earlier, I had 567 friends and so far, now I have 396. And there are still probably many I don't know. This day in age, what do we consider "knowing someone". It seems like you can just meet someone online and because you know their name, or their screen name, you "know" them. But in actuality you don't. This mentality many of us have is kind of stupid. I think we should only interact on FaceBook with people we would interact with in real life.