why?

I always come on here and find I have a friend request and I always except them . I think many believe that the more friends they have , somehow this means the more money they will make . I don't think they realize that it doesn't really matter how many friends you have it depends on how well you respond to someone . I have found that you get to know other's on here and get to remember the names of the one's that you have responded to many times and no matter what those are the people you are going to tend to answer to firsts . When other's realize this they will save themselves a lot of time where instead of sitting on here trying to make friends they will learn that the quality of a post would make them a lot more money .

Honestly members like this I think just don't get it. There are no incentives for having a ton for friends other than you have someone you can swap postings with. However like you said, there is no way he could return the favor with that many friends every day. Silly, I think.

It may be a trophy thing. Maybe he and a friend are having a race. You, of course are desireable, because he cannot get you to accept him. I do not know any other reason, unless he has some kind of an obsessive compulsive disorder. I will not play doctor and diagnose, though. Maybe he has a thing about Heather, LOL.

3,000 friends that is way to many.i cant even keep up with 50 or so.like you said he must think everyone will respond to his discussion.an with only 597 point that is unreal.he has nothing to gain but alot of email alerts..lol if he has them all turned on..

theres no need to have that many friends, i like to keep my friend to a minimum,ive got about 60-70 and somtimes i feel that to many.i feel he just wants to show off.

I think in his case it is just like this people on myspace who try to get as many friends as possible. I saw someone a few weeks ago post that he wanted everyone on mylot to be his friend. I can't remember who it is. Maybe it's the same person?

I do not think it is about that, but I tend to pick friends if they have similar nterests to me, not just because I could get a bunch of friends. How do you know he has so many friends? Oh duh, you checked his profile. What would be the harm if you did accept him as your friend?

I think there can be multiple reasons for this. Firstly he might just want to increase his friend count. In the virtual world of Internet, people always want to prove that they are important and one parameter is the size of your friend circle. However considering that he has requested several times despite of you rejecting the friendship request, implies that your conjecture of he being assuming that you might respond to his discussions also has substantial weight.

Just one of those things, I guess. Some people have more time than others. I have plenty of time and I work on here as much as I can, and some people have even more time! ;-) This person probably got the points because he or she has a lot of time.

I can tell you why. He thinks that all these 3000 friends are going to get notifiers of his discussions, & that some will respond. But, of course, he doesn't turn his notifiers on, as he doesn't respond to anyone else. I delete people like that.

I was actually wondering about a similar thing the other day. I had a request from someone with 1524 friends already and I posted a discussion to the effect that does the number of friends influence whether you accept them or not - there was no-one who said it would affect their decision. Like you I cannot see the point, there is no way that someone with this number of friends can possibly deal with anywhere near the number of discussions of their friends and I questioned whether they were building up their number of friends because they felt it would enable them to contribute more, or, just because they felt more people would be exposed to their discussions. In the case you mention it may be more the latter as they obviously cannot have responsed to many other peoples posts and if that is the case what kind of friend will they make?

I don't get it either, unless he is trying to compensate for a non-existent social life :-) I find it hard enough just keeping up with the friends I do have without having over 3000 - crazy

I think you hit the nail on the head with your premise, "Does he perhaps expect to get 3,000 responses to each of his discussions." I am sure that is exactly what the case is. I am also pretty sure I have recieved a request as well (I imagine everyone has!) because there is some guy who has come back time and again.

It may not have anything to do with the amount of money he may make. If you are familiar with MySpace it's a big deal to have a lot of friends. Perhaps it's just a networking technique.

I really don't see what this kid has to gain either, I'm assuming that he has a misunderstanding of how the system works and probably assumes having more friends will help him to make the big bucks. Also, since you are only able to private message your friends, maybe he feels the need to commmunicate with people on a more personal level...who knows. Have you taken notice as to whether or not his friends are females? Maybe he is trying to pick up...hehe.

He probably doesn't bother to say no to most. I rarely will say NO to a request unless I see the person has zero interests that I do or is on only to promote his own money making issues and sites. I don't really have a reason for saying NO most times and just accept requests. I will generally go to certain "friends" listings to answer but once in a while will just hit "my friends" and randomly pick someone I rarely answer to. To me the friends issue really isn't an issue of true 'friends' as it is acquaintances that then have the ability to talk to you or something.

I think you stated the reason in the first line...because he's and eighteen year old kid...lol He probably thinks the more friends you have the more money you make...lol Who knows what prompts people to do the things they do...Check out my latest discussion...one of my friends has decided I am an internet troll.... I don't really even know what that means...hahaha

I think I know who you are talking about, I've denyed his "friendship" more than once. He has to sit on the computer all day and request friends lol. He should go on myspace, you can collect a lot more there ;)

LOL. I think I know who you're referring to. I've seen some of discussions and he has over 100 responses. I think his idea is to build his friend base and try to have as many responses to his discussions. But the thing is, I don't think he even replies to his friends' discussions. I think that's just unfair of him.

Maybe he is trying to set a friend record...lol. I don't see any earthly reason for it myself, but then I'm not 18 years old either. My outlook has matured a good deal. I wonder why people would want 2 or 3 hundred friens yet I see it here all the time. I have to assume that they all have their reasons for doing what they do.