How many friends on facebook?

United States
October 19, 2010 9:24am CST
I seem to be on facebook so much more now then ever before, I feel addicted to it to be honest. So here is my topic to dicuss when it comes to facebook. How many friends do you have on the site? Do you know everyone of them in a personal nature? If not would you consider meeting them in offline life? Let me know what you think.
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@barnkinney (1343)
• Philippines
19 Oct 10
i have a lot of friends in facebook that i needed to weed out those i don't really know. i was shy to deny people requesting to be friends, simply because i don't remember them, or we're not that close. but, i learned that there are things in the site that are private and would be best kept for those who i really am friends with.
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• United States
19 Oct 10
I had some friends that I thought you are you and why did you request me? I still have a few that I am not too sure about, but yes I had to weed some out myself. I also had my profile hacked and spam messages sent out from my page. So in retrosepct I realize having a lot of friends on facebook can be a bad thing. Nice post thanks so much for sharing.
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@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
19 Oct 10
i am not addicted but i do have 200 friends. a good part of my friends are work related though.
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• United States
19 Oct 10
I have around 144 myself most are from my online college I attend. I would be more then willing to meet them in real life and have thought about starting to do this so I can travel more. Nice response and nice to hear from you as well.
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@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
19 Oct 10
very old friends and family
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@ellyse2003 (1463)
• Philippines
19 Oct 10
I have a total of 150 friends on facebook. I am much addicted here in mylot than in facebook, my friends are not always online so even though there are games I still feel bored unlike here, there are many discussions that I can read and never feel bored.
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@lumenmom (1986)
• United States
20 Oct 10
I don;t feel as comfortable on facebook as I do on mylot, so I don't go out of my way to make friends. I don't have a lot, but that does not bother me. Most of my facebook friends are people I already know in real life or celebrity/professional people.
@toniganzon (72517)
• Philippines
20 Oct 10
I have 462 friends as of the moment. I personally know at least 95% of them and the rest seemed to have come out from nowhere. I don't like people inviting me because they want to sell something, so i usually ignore those friend requests. I don't have any plans to meet the unknown fb friends in person because I think I'm too old for it. I don't even communicate with them at all.
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@ravinskye (8237)
• United States
19 Oct 10
I think I have like 186 friends on facebook. With the exception of one person, I know everyone on my list at least a little. The one girl that I don't know is someone I played a game with and she added me so that if we wanted to play again we could find each other. I only add people I know because I have pictures of my kids on there. I'm addicted to facebook too. I play the games all day long lol.
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@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
30 Oct 10
I am no fan to facebook though I do keep an account there with my real name so long lost friends and relatives are able to link with me as it seems that everybody has facebook. I don't have that many friends there compared to mylot but the small number of friends and relatives there keeps our line of connection hot and busy. That is the only mode of communication right now as the distance make phone calls expensive.
@youless (112561)
• Guangzhou, China
19 Oct 10
I am not very interested in Facebook. I don't have many friends there. I think I have no more than 10 friends in my Facebook account. And I don't know some of them at all. I just received the friend's request and I just approved to it and that's all. I love China
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@manleyjoe (1597)
• United States
19 Oct 10
I don't have many friends on facebook, the ones I do have I have already met offline. Most are former co-workers or family. A few are acquaintances that I see around town on weekly or monthly basis.
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@arunmails (3011)
• India
19 Oct 10
[b]Making friends online is not a big deal. But, making them as your friend is a big deal. I have many friends in my face book. But, I haven't seen them yet. But, I have some of my friends who is in face book. Everyday I see them, have fun with them.[/b]
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• Philippines
20 Oct 10
One of the most common questions we're asked at Facebook is, "How many friends can you have?" It's an increasingly important question as more people around the world share and connect on Facebook and on the Web overall, but it's also difficult to answer. While the average user on Facebook has 120 confirmed friend connections, that number doesn't account for all the different typesof relationships people have in their lives.
• United States
20 Oct 10
Nice to know that you view online and offline life as different. I do not know all my friends in a personal matter but the connection of having someone to talk to that does not know you real well is kinda of nice I feel. Nice post thanks for your feedback, where did you get your data at if you do not mind me asking?
@Sheeny (173)
• Philippines
19 Oct 10
i am a facebook addict, i have 800 friends on my account. i dont confirmed stranger people. and i dont consider meeting them up in offline life because i still believe what my parents taught me, be responsible in every action you do. i think meeting stranger in person is a delicate action.
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• Indonesia
15 Nov 10
I have about 800 ++ on my list friend.. and I already stcuk with that!!!
@much2say (55901)
• Los Angeles, California
20 Oct 10
I am now at 219 friends on Facebook! I only add people that I know personally but for a long time there were 2 that I took a chance on . . . 1 of which turned out to be a cool friend as we had so many things in common anyway . . . the other ended up deleting me and I'm glad because I was getting annoyed with her posts (we never really communicated anyway. In recent months, I've been getting into friend requests to certain "celebrities" in my sport - and most of them have added me. A few of them actually replied to my messages . . . the rest I guess they just want fans to follow but want nothing to do with them personally. But other than that, I don't like to meet people on Facebook - I just want to deal with those that I know.
@anurag3786 (6267)
• India
20 Oct 10
Facebook is a really very good site and also many persons join this site. And I have many friends on this site. And in present I have 85 friends their. But I want to more than 100 friends on this site. Because I always like to add new friends on Facebook. And I also like facebook apps very much.
@gaiza12 (4884)
• Philippines
20 Oct 10
Im kinda addicted to it as well, but i only have few friends. And i should say that all of them are my friends in real life. Classmates during grade school, high school, and college and coworkers even a few friends that i meet on my day to day activities, some of it are relatives of my boyfriend and barely know them physically but we are friends through fb and text..
• India
20 Oct 10
i have around 80 friends only. and i know all of them personally because i only add them those i know personally. i never add some unknown people or strangers. the friends in my list are either my school or college mates. and i only use facebook to keep in touch with my old friends and also with the new ones
@jamed28 (1903)
• Philippines
20 Oct 10
I have 600 friends. I grow because I need to increase my Mafia Strength, wherein you need several friends to increase you fighting strength.
• Philippines
20 Oct 10
I don't know personally all of my facebook friends. The first time I created my account, I just search all the people with the same surname as mine and I added some of them. I even met some distant relatives and I feel good about that.Now I have more than 600 friends and I know only less than one third of them. It's fun to have friends from all over the world!