Two questions about facebook?

[Nancy]

Each person makes their own "rules" for Facebook. Here are my answers to your questions:

1. No, it's not weird that you have 55 friends. It's not really good to have a lot of random people you don't know as friends because you really don't want random people to know your business. If you get more sociable in school and get to know more people, you can always add more. Kids care too much about their Facebook popularity, but it doesn't matter at all. Most kids who are "Facebook popular" really don't know most of their "friends"...they just add random people.

2. Even if you gave your birthday wishes in person, it's always nice to also send them over Facebook. It doesn't have to be anything elaborate; a simple "Happy birthday, Whateverhisnameis" is fine. This may also help you with your socialization process because others in school will see your name and realize you're a good guy if their friends like you enough to have you as their Facebook friend.

Just know that it shouldn't be a contest of who has the most friends on Facebook (or any other social media). It's about you getting social. Hopefully, if you start out being social on line, that will continue into the real world. Just don't give too much information. You want to socialize, but you want to stay safe, too.