Is a facebook a place where you are friends with people you have no clue who they are?

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it's not intended to be like that, but lots of kids use it as a way to appear popular, other kids play the facebook games which you can only advance in if they get items from their friends... so the more friends they have, the better they do at the games

they dont realize that they can just play the same games on zynga.com and not have it connected to thier facebook account and be able to get those items other ways

most social networks have been like this (minus the games part) as people really do think that they are popular or famous if they have a lot of "friends" in social media, but in reality, it just makes them appear desperate, fake and insecure by having a lot of social media "friends"

i'm not sure what age group you fall into, but when you get older, you will see that your more mature friends actually do use facebook the way in which is was intended - to stay in touch with people you already know - people you went to high school and college with 20 years ago... your family....etc