facebook friends

bacon n eggs

Today my youngest son laughed yes laughed at me as I had ONLY 23 friends on facebook, he thought it was quiet funny I was such a loner. Now of the 23 friends most are cousins and friends whom I don't go online to incase I have to talk to them because can't stand them in real life so why would I want to talk to them online. I know I know shouldn't have friended them in first place. live and learn eh. Only go on fakebook to see what the kids up to and behaving. Anyhow made me wonder am I the only one on the planet who doesn't befriend everyone who asks or are there other like minded people out there? Surely I'm not alone?

foxinsox

You are not alone...

Sure don't ya have 23 friends!

:-)

Chemical Burn

Insert one of those witty AH response regarding being alone / loner or something that will hoover up the thanks.

MonkstownHoop

Friends are just strangers who know your name

efb

23 friends? and one if them is your son... OK

bacon n eggs

I like alone ;-)

tommy2bad

I don't have 23 friends in real life, let alone facebook.
Enemies, now them I have in spades!

bacon n eggs

Actually 2 are sons...daughter wouldn't friend me, so not cool thing to do, so she says.

13spanner

Had to get off Facebook for a finish.

Aside from a handful of actual uses, it's just a big hub for gossip :pac:

bacon n eggs

I can't understand how you can have hundreds of friends on there and most of them you pass on street without so much as a hey.

1hottmofo

Ive a facebook page for my cat

She has more than 23 friends

bacon n eggs

ahhhh a cat knows more than me, but I'm ok with that I like my own company, tis others I have the problem with.

Jesus Wept

1hottmofo wrote: »

Ive a facebook page for my cat

She has more than 23 friends

tell it to add me

Chemical Burn

Andy Carroll wrote: »

tell it to add me

Sorry, I don't befriend losers or stalkers :pac:

1hottmofo

Andy Carroll wrote: »

tell it to add me

No naughty emails.shes neutered

belcampprisoner

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2013/04/data-science-of-the-facebook-world/

bacon n eggs

erm have you actually read all this?

NuckingFacker

I've 500 "friends" and havn't a boggs who 300 of them are, 100 havn't a boggs who I am and the other 100 are people I avoid. You gotta love Facebook friends.

looking_around

I use face book for image uploading. (as they have no limit unlike other sites)
Thats why I joined.
So I have like very very few friends on it. I prefer to make it obvious that I'm a loner :P

TeddyTedson

But you did add people you can't stand
How are you different than the people you're talking about


I like all of the people on my facebook account and wouldn't walk past them without a chat.

FullblownRose

Quality, not quantity

bacon n eggs

But you did add people you can't stand
How are you different than the people you're talking about

I'm a slow learner, can I add you.. oh wait.

faceman

I don't get the whole friend list being public thing. Why would anyone want go have it known to the world how many friends who have and more importantly who they are?

At if respect for people's privacy I've my friend list set to private. If we're friends on fb, you'll see mutual friends. There's no need to see the details of people you don't know.

Dyr

Only a hundred odd posts too OP. You're some no mark

3qsmavrod5twfe

Have you tried Bebo?

Bebo 4eva!

OldGoat

Most people I know that use Facebook have multiple accounts. There is their own account, then the safe one for family to see, then one or more for the stagename(s) account(s), then the sideline business(s) account(s).
It makes me feel popular.

bacon n eggs

Only a hundred odd posts too OP. You're some no mark

Yeah which is roughly 24.6 per month
You have been a user since March 2002 roughly 15.5 ..think that makes you more of a no mark Bambi
However I don't go by who posts what when, only since it seemed to matter to you. Have a good day.

gramar

I deleted my FB account about two months ago after about 3 years of infrequent use. As I rarely visited they constantly sent me mail telling me what I was missing out on etc
I had about 50 contacts of which about 10 were friends and the rest were people I know but am not in contact with. Didn't see the point of it and never used it so got rid of it.

bacon n eggs

then the safe one for family to see

Does the other blow up?

Angron

OldGoat wrote: »

Most people I know that use Facebook have multiple accounts. There is their own account, then the safe one for family to see, then one or more for the stagename(s) account(s), then the sideline business(s) account(s).
It makes me feel popular.

I know someone who has a few multiple accounts, which I think they use to win competitions on Facebook. Bit ridiculous really, but nyeh, whatever floats their boat I guess.

Duggy747

Out of all the friends I have on Facebook, I've ignored probably all of them except for 6 or 7 of them.

Only so much support for Youth Defence or immigrant bashing one can take.

CommanderC

You should have asked your kid to really think deep and tell you honestly, how many of his mass of Facebook friends are real friends, ones who would be there for him during thick and thin.............

Then watch his face drop

speedboatchase

I've actually written a book about this! Well, and other annoying aspects of Facebook. It's out soon... *cough* plug *cough*.

Interestingly, a UK survey by Intersperience in May 2011 found that Facebook users in their fifties have 50 times less numbers than that of users in their twenties, while the average 22-year-old user has average of 1,000 friends. I have around 220, which I think is fair enough for someone who is 28 and acquired the majority of through old workmates/university etc.

meoklmrk91

I have around 200 I think, a lot of my friends have like 600 which I think is crazy, I try to be selective and only add people who don't annoy me and that I actually know some bit.

speedboatchase

speedboatchase wrote: »

50 times less numbers

what

efb

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

I have around 200 I think, a lot of my friends have like 600 which I think is crazy, I try to be selective and only add people who don't annoy me and that I actually know some bit.

200- that is selective!

anncoates

All these navel-gazing threads about Facebook need their own forum at this stage.

SunnyDub1

I done a clear out of "friends" on FB before Xmas, decided to do it after realizing I'm Friends with people that would walk by you in the street without even a hello or a look :rolleyes: Don't use it that much and only really interested in seeing what my actual freinds are doing & uploading.

anyways long story short: was out over the xmas in one of my local pubs and this girl ( a girl that was in my year in school that I barley spoke to at all) approaches me "is there any reason why you deleted me as a Friend on fb?" I was gob smacked, all I could reply with was "ah I must of done it by accident" Tbh I didn't even know the girls name until one of friends with me reminded me.

I'm assuming the girl woke the next day with the fear and regret or more or less telling me that she checked up FB from time to time even though we don't talk :rolleyes:

Moral of the story is, even when you don't talk to the people you are Friends with on FB they will still stalk you. Beware

Legs.Eleven

I've got 338 friends on Facebook. Most of them I've met and spent a bit of time with but I've been deleted and have deleted people who I've forgotten and visa verse. I use Facebook to stay in touch with people and upload photos and to pass the time. Who gives a ****e? It is what it is. This pride in not using it or only befriending a select few comes off even worse tbh.

bacon n eggs

pride...I think not

Legs.Eleven

bacon n eggs wrote: »

pride...I think not

Many people I've met come across like they're proud they don't use it, which I don't get.

Happyman42

The day people allowed Facebook to define 'friend' was a sad one.

Steve O

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Many people I've met come across like they're proud they don't use it, which I don't get.

And vice versa. I don't make a point of delibrately saying I'm not on Facebook, but when I'm asked and I give the response, it's "you're not in Facebook? oh the humanity!!!!".

bacon n eggs

Not proud, know there are those who do and those who don't what ever floats the boat

Legs.Eleven

Steve O wrote: »

And vice versa. I don't make a point of delibrately saying I'm not on Facebook, but when I'm asked and I give the response, it's "you're not in Facebook? oh the humanity!!!!".

That's equally lame but you rarely see threads criticising people not on Facebook. Not sure why people criticise either way. It's just a tool for communication and particularly useful when you're living away from home.

Legs.Eleven

bacon n eggs wrote: »

Not proud, know there are those who do and those who don't what ever floats the boat

Then I wasn't referring to you....

bacon n eggs

of course but hundreds and thousands of friends is the point I am trying to make, people just seem to add them because they can not because they know them or like them etc.

Legs.Eleven

bacon n eggs wrote: »

of course but hundreds and thousands of friends is the point I am trying to make, people just seem to add them because they can not because they know them or like them etc.

Genuinely, why do you give a ****?

bacon n eggs

Genuinely I don't, I'm just curious, I have three teens and I see their friends lists and I know for a fact they don't know or even say hi to half of them, and I know this is par for the course.

Legs.Eleven

bacon n eggs wrote: »

Genuinely I don't, I'm just curious, I have three teens and I see their friends lists and I know for a fact they don't know or even say hi to half of them, and I know this is par for the course.

I'm guessing they add those friends to show how popular they are or because they don't want someone not to like them for refusing them or because it makes them feel better to have more Facebook friends or because they want to perve or snoop on the person in question or just cos. I'd say the reasons are fairly obvious. At that age you want to be liked and to be seen to be popular.

Something I don't understand is those that add people on Facebook, only after meeting them once or twice. I have 340 friends (I only found that out, just as I checked there). If I didn't have such a large extended family, that number would be a lot less.