Do you pay attention to how many Facebook friends someone has?
@lilblondiemjd (857)
United States
October 23, 2010 2:26pm CST
I was always one who thought it was lame when people would think more friends on social networking sites made them look good, but I do have to admit, when someone adds me on there, I base how shady they are by how many friends they have. Of course it isn't a good system, since no matter how many friends you have, you could still be a nutcase...But I usually deny people who do not have many connections!
Do you pay any mind to the number of friends someone has on there?
13 responses
@choybel (5042)
• Philippines
23 Oct 10
I, too think that it is lame to when people think that the number of friends they have on a social networking sites defines how good they look and as a rule, I only add friends,relatives, and people I am acquainted with personally. I must admit though that I sometimes add pretty ladies who would want to be my friend but I also update my friends list every once in a while so I usually just end up deleting them because that's what I do when I didn't get the chance to know them personally.
@lilblondiemjd (857)
• United States
23 Oct 10
I am the same way. I usually give people who look credible a chance, but then if they turn out to not talk or aren't that friendly, I just end up deleting them too. It's not worth clogging up the newsfeed!
@gatorgurlm21 (213)
• United States
23 Oct 10
I only add someone I'm not sure of by seeing if we have more than 30 mutual friends, if we do then I'll add the person. If I have only 1 or 2 mutual friends, then I assume there just adding random people for shady reason and I block/ deny them. Sometimes when I add someone I look thru there profile and just see if I have more friends than them. It gives me satisfaction too know I have more friends, yes I know it sounds immature and dumb.
@lilblondiemjd (857)
• United States
23 Oct 10
I meant if someone had a small amount of friends in total. Not like 30 mutual friends, but 30 friends in general.
@ellyse2003 (1463)
• Philippines
25 Oct 10
I have a few friends in facebook, and I really don't add people who invites me if I don't know them. I am very careful in adding friends at facebook, if I don't trust the person i wil not add him/her.
@irishmist (3814)
• United States
27 Oct 10
I do wonder about this, because I don't want facebook to become like myspace where you just collect friends. Facebook is different in some respects. There is not all that hunting for just the right "Cute comment", just straight up stuff, everyday life things, and that is what I like about the site.
@lakerfanster (2577)
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24 Oct 10
I do have a look at someones friends list numbers but mainly because I look at their homepage and look to see if I have any mutual friends with them.
@joey_matthews (8354)
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24 Oct 10
I don't really pay attention to how many friends other people have because quite alot of people add others that they knew from school and college that they don't even talk to... so theres no point in really basing anything on that. I dont add anyone myself unless i know them and i will actually talk to them.
@jugsjugs (12967)
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24 Oct 10
I only add people that i know or that are on another site like this one who i often chat to,as i can not see the point of adding people that you do not know that well or at all.I have friends that are on there whos friends try to add me.I have never looked to see how many friends a person has or who their friends are.
@Jacobus1919 (1683)
• Philippines
24 Oct 10
I do not actually pay attention on how many facebook friends someone has. I beleive 40% of people how have too much friends on Facebook don't actually know these people they are accepting or adding.
@puccagirl (7294)
• Israel
24 Oct 10
Not at all. I know a lot of people who add basically anyone, so of course they have more friends than people who don't (I never add people I don't know in real life, for instance), so I don't think it is a very truthful reflection of anything....
@wiedning (9)
• Indonesia
24 Oct 10
Hmm.. it's depend on your reason why you've create facebook account. if you want just to socialized with your friends only, well it has to be an extra carefull if you had new friend request, but if you create FB for networking business such as internet marketing, it's no harm at all you try to have alot of friends as many as possible. it's only according to my "poor" experiences, tht's why i have more than one facebook accounts
