My sister has lots of friends on Facebook, she only knows half of them, is this sensible?

[Ryan]

My sister has 1000+ friends on Facebook, she only knows about half of them personally. Why do people (girls in particular) add random people and people from around the school and area on Facebook?, I have Facebook but I have only 6 or 7 friends on it because I only add really close friends on it. I find it creepy that she has random people looking at your personal info and photos. Does anyone else agree with me?

[Miguel J.]

I say the same thing.........chuck norris

[Iraterat666]

I have around 200, i know them all..I doubt your sister actually knows half than 1000 people (500) anyways. I find it creepy when random people add me, i never accept them. I agree, to many paedophiles.

[TRish]

I totally agree, I have mainly family plus a few friends that I actually know.

I don' t see the point in adding anyone that I don' t know.

[TRish]

It's a vanity thing. The younger generations have gotten the idea in their heads that it's some kind of status symbol to have as many friends on Facebook as possible...but the thing is, these aren't real friends. They're "Facebook friends", which in the Facebook universe is "anyone who can find you on a member search", up to and including 50 year old fat, balding guys playing with themselves while pretending to be 15 year old girls. Being young regrettably also means being naive as hell, and it sounds like your sister isn't going to wake up until the police contacts your parents asking why the photo she posted on her Facebook page is on some child pornography website they busted.

I know an FBI agent who works in Internet security. He said as a test, he created an account for a rubber duck on Facebook and sent out thousands of friend requests, and fully half of them accepted the friend request even though it was for a rubber duck. Replace "rubber duck" with"career criminal", "pedophile", or "someone wanting to steal your identity" and you see how bad the problem is, The impersonality of Facebook entices us to be more revealing of ourselves in ways we would never do in person, but the danger is still there, and people don't realize it. If a complete stranger came up to you in person asking you for your intimate details of where you live, how old you are, requested a picture of you, etc you'd tell them to get lost.

I myself only have 12 friends on my own Facebook page, but I know every single one of them and every single one of them will loan me money and let me sleep on their couch if I asked them to, and I would do the same for them. This is because these people are my real friends, and I've had a lot of people I've never heard of before who asked to be my friend on Facebook, and I declined. Personally, I thnk it's a really shallow thing for anyone to measure their worth by how many make believe friends they have.