how does one get friends on Facebook?

[Rod Wright ii]

I have been on Facebook for nearly a year now and so far no one has wanted to be a friend on there. My page has my interests and other information and i notice that some on my classmates in College have over 300 friends on theirs. In fact everyine I know has over 200 friends on their facebook friends. Is Facebook not a place where you can meet people and network? Maybe I need to turn a setting on so that people can add me. I even tried to add a few friends by myself just by brousing and asking them to add me as a friend. So far i have had no response from anyone I asked. Do I need to advertise or something?