Friends
By redredrose
@redredrose (1105)
United States
October 30, 2012 12:32pm CST
Do you know personally every friend you ever had on Facebook? Have you met everyone in person are they all close friends and family? I see so many people with more than 500 friends on their friends list that they can possibly have known all of them personally and met them as well in person. I have even seen some of my friends with 1,000 or more Facebook friends and so many from countries i know they have never been to that they can't possibly have known them all in person and be close family or friends. Even I have some friends on my list that i never met but we have friends in common as to why i have them on my list. It is ok to have as many people on your list as you want weather your close to them or not ever met them in person or not, but do you really want people you don't know to be your friend and see all your info. I'm really careful about who i add to my friends list even tho i do add people i never met. As long as we have friends in common i think that is ok. Do you have people on your list you don't chat with often and don't play games with because if you do i say why have them o your list. Some people just get anyone on their list that plays games so they will have neighbors in the games so they can play better and not to chat with them or get to know them and i think this is like using someone and not really good. What do you think and are you really close to everyone on your list. Do you know everyone on your list personally?
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19 responses
@watchamacallitz (1171)
• Philippines
2 Nov 12
I would say, I personally know 90% of those people that i have accepted as "friends" in Facebook. I have over 1,000 friends and i know almost 900 of them, yeah, I am a very out going person so I always meet people everyday
@redredrose (1105)
• United States
3 Nov 12
I don't think i could know a 1,000 people or be friends wih that many in person or on facebook.
@Chispa514 (871)
• Montreal, Quebec
30 Oct 12
I have over 500 friends on facebook, many of them I do know in person, people I went to school with, friends I met through other friends, family members, etc... Some of the friends are people I never met in person, but have spoke to on the phone, texted, or seen on webcam, and I tend to feel closer to alot of them than I do to most people I know in person.
But I must admit, I do have alot of people added that I do not know personally, that I added for some games I play on facebook, like Sims Social.
@Chispa514 (871)
• Montreal, Quebec
30 Oct 12
I also forgot to add, that now that I have a daughter, I am very careful about who I add to facebook, and if its someone I'm adding just for a game or something, I limit the info they can access, like my photo albums and certain info about me. As well, I have my friends list hidden so no one can snoop and try to see who I am friends with and try to cause trouble
@anklesmash (1412)
•
31 Oct 12
I have less than a hundred friends on Facebook but I know all of them and would class them as friends in real life.I could have a lot more friends if I added everyone I knew or every friend of a friend.Some people will add anyone who sends them a friend requests.This happened to me the other day,I added someone that I never met before thinking it was someone else who had the same name and about the same number of mutual friends.And this person added me I still haven't got a clue who she is and she probably doesn't know who I am.
@anuraa32 (2446)
• India
24 Feb 13
No I dont personally know every friend on my friendlist in Facebook. Nor have I have I met everyone in the list. Many of them were friends made when I was obssessed about playing Mafia Wars. Some of them have gone on to become good online friends. Many of the friends are my students. So the list is long but not all are my friends and many I have not met personally at all.
@pheenkeesh (103)
• Philippines
2 Nov 12
I have a lot of Facebook friends. Almost close to a thousand. Back then, I had a lot because I needed contacts and resources for the Facebook games I play. But when those games finally shut down, I decided to delete those friends. So I scanned my entire friend list and started deleting these strangers. After I finished, I was surprised because I had 800++ friends left. And I knew each one of them in real life. Well yes, I had some online friends in that list, but it was just around 10 people or so. I was surprised that I knew them all... I don't normally add strangers as friends anymore. But I'll admit that I don't talk to all those 800++ friends, just the people that matter to me now :D I do visit their timelines and greet them on their birthdays, though.
@md_som (29)
• India
31 Oct 12
well i have met many of my facebook friends all those are school college friends, family members relatives and i have met some online and became good friends and i am eagerly waiting to meet them in real life..yes sometime i talk to them with the video conferencing feature of fb....so its like talking face to face in real life..
thanks
@marguicha (223720)
• Chile
30 Oct 12
I know personally all the friends I have in Facebook. I don´t even have all the people I know there, but just my very best friends. I feel that Facebook makes you lose your intimacy and I don´t like that at all. I don´t even like to tell all of my near friends and family the same things.
@sender621 (14893)
• United States
30 Oct 12
I would be amazed to know that someone oersonally kbew every one of their friends on facebook persosonally. that s a lot for one peron to manage4 and hanle. it is asking for quite a lot of effort o the part of the user.
@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
31 Oct 12
I used to have my Facebook account intended for family and friends. But when i started having an online shop via Facebook, I realized that I needed a wider audience for my online shop. Now I got more than 3000 friends on my list. But I think even if you have that much and you do not do great marketing strategies, an online shop will not survive. Not all included in our friends' list has "subscribed" to our daily updates.
@jadoixa (1166)
• Philippines
31 Oct 12
as for me, i have 600+ friends and people on my fb list, some i know personally like my schoolmates, former classmates, neighbors, people from my area but we're not really that close or talk that often, also some are my relatives like cousins, aunts,uncles, and families like sisters, parents, etc..etc..others are people i don't really know but if i can see that we do have common and mutual friend(s), i could approve them. i can also see a lot of people and my friends having thousands of people on their list and some of them to be able to reached that number just add anyone or people they know personally even though they're really not that close, or others strangers who come to send them requests, i think these people don't care, just as long as they can build their lists and have more friends there. on my part, i try to be careful and don't put everything on there like information and other updates because i learned and realized not too many care about it, some may even just snoop on you or try to see everything what is going on with you and your life,.so i don't anymore post a lot of it and rather just keep it to myself.,we don't have to be saying everything about it, also on facebook. also no matter how many friends we have on our list, hundreds or thousands, only 1, 2 or a few of them we can really consider true and close to us. and some of them when we meet and see in person, don't even care or bother about us., as what i can see and observe too.
@mariaperalta (19073)
• Mexico
31 Oct 12
I dont use facebook. I prefer just to chat online with my family and friends.
@ungu89 (1999)
• Malaysia
31 Oct 12
personally , i have about 1000 in my friend list.
a few of the are in business.
i add them so i can see what they selling .
i been doing this craft things.
and of course i dont approve anyone that i thing will make feel uncomfortable and never approve someone that dont have any mutual friend with me.
@seliokas (346)
• Lithuania
31 Oct 12
Hello,
To answer your question,
Yes, i know every of my 300+ Facebook friends personally and we've been met at least once, I don't understand people who invites random Facebook users. What's the point?
Of course, there is people who i don't get in touch for a while now, but i used to before. So I'm not really close to all of them. I wouldn't want that random people would see what I'm doing in in what mood i am, as well as checking my personal photos.
happy mylotting!
@Sindelle (824)
• United States
30 Oct 12
I know most of them personally however in some cases I have not seen them in a very long time or only got back in contact with them through Facebook. There are a few that I have added which I've never met in real life but became friends with through talking on Facebook. In fact the ones I probably socialize with the most are people I have never met in real life.
@GemmaR (8517)
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30 Oct 12
I used to add a lot of people on Facebook, but then I stopped doing it because I came to the conclusion that I was sharing so much information on there that it would be quite dangerous to add people who I didn't know and trust in real life. These days I don't bother to add people unless I know them personally, and I don't ever add people who I wouldn't say hello to if I saw them in the street. I am much happier now that this is the case and I know that I am never going to regret deleting all of those people who I didn't really like.
@lologirl2021 (5542)
• United States
30 Oct 12
So i know on facebook i have over 700 friends on there and i think that is other pages included like i have old navy on tehre rack room shoes and stores like that as well. I like having those stores on there because i can see when they put up coupons and what not it does help too. So im not sure exactly how many friends i have on tehre but yes i do know everyone on my page, i dont ever add anyone i dont know because i dont need people stalking me on there or messaging me weird things. I have had some people friend request me and i decline them because personally i dont know them and its a little weird to me.
@zoey7879 (3092)
• Quincy, Illinois
30 Oct 12
No, I don't know them each personally - that includes some of the people on my friends list who are family. I do, however, know 95% of them on a personal level.
@antonywinslet (32)
• India
30 Oct 12
not just friends you personally meet, but also friends that you have on facebook, LinkedIn, will definitely useful at some point of time.
you will get to know things around the world so fast by sharing,
for example- LinkedIn is now very much used to share job opportunities.
@MiaFerrari (51)
• Argentina
30 Oct 12
I doubt there is a person who knows all of their facebook contacts in real life. I do know most of them, but mainly because I don't usually accept friend requests from people I don't know.