Why do people have over 1,000 friends on Facebook?

[my1520]

so they can think to themselves....wow, I'm popular!! and either openly boast about it (what a loser!) or casually "mention" it in conversation. Either way, it boggles my mind.
I have 34 people... some of which is family.
The rest are work friends, friends who live interstate or in another country or simply friends that, between my life and theirs we don't get to see each other too often.
It's a way to share the funny little things that happen in your life that aren't really worth a phone call.
But I "speak" to everyone on that list.
Sometimes I get friend requests from people I've never heard of and I do not automatically say yes. If I don't know them, I don't friend them.