What's the average number of friends for Facebook?

[some guy]

I get the whole 'wanting a large number of friends on Facebook'-buzz, I do (be hipocritical if I didn't because I wanted as many as possible til I realized I only actually speak to about 10), but don't forget that having ALOT of facebook friends also greatly increases your chances of being unfriended by any number of people who may go to your page, see you have umpteen thousand friends, then realize they'll not be missed if they unfriend you because you have so many friends you wouldn't be able to notice them anyway.

I think it's actually a great way to get depressed and to take your mind off posting things which matter to you, which is what (I think) facebook should be about - like a continuously live yearbook of your life with no real end (as in a definitive final edition - forgetting about death for a moment - will never be printed and you'll just keep posting updates).

If you have 2000+ friends, also consider this : this year, facebook reformed the 'unsubscribe/subscribe' system so it now works on a familiarity system (I believe). If, for example, 1950 of your 2000 friends don't interact with you for however long, your updates wont appear on their walls and you'll basically just be a number to them.

A more impressive gauge of your friends is how many different people's updates you see on your wall because that will tell you which of those on your list are regularly checking out whatever it is you post.