Facebook friends?

Philippines
April 9, 2013 6:17pm CST
While responding in one of the discussion here, a question popped out in my head. Are facebook friends of yours real? Are they reliable and dependable at your down times? I think the reason behind these questions is the fact that most of our FB friends do not really care on what we feel or what we think. They just hit "like" and make some irrelevant comments. Though not all are like this, still many users tend to be part of this chunk.
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18 responses
@Deepak2J (1178)
• India
10 Apr 13
You are right. Many of the FB friends are people using fake accounts and almost most of them using someone else's photo. Some are good and using correct information, but only a few.
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• Philippines
10 Apr 13
I really do not like those people who aren't posting their real faces and pictures but instead uses some anime character or someone else's photo. They seem to hide many things from the public and perhaps hides their true identity.
@sajeevking (5073)
• Mumbai, India
11 Apr 13
I personally know everyone on my Facebook friends list. and also sometime i make new friends who are friends of my friends i have two accounts one i use only for playing games in which i don't really know anyone personally i just added them because of fun playing games and competing with them. as we usually have similar interest. I talk with my mylotters and other unknown people through this account and yeah few of them are just great and maybe 99% of them are just waste but who cares
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
12 Apr 13
hi kenshin I have no idea who a lot of my friends o n face book are as I feared to offend fellow my lotters so added some in hopes they were my fellow my lotters. It w ould help if people would say I am user so and so from mylot then I would be really happy to add you as my friend for sure.
@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
10 Apr 13
Yes, 85 percent of my Facebook friends are my friends in real life. I do not accept friend request from people who I do not know personally. Only few are those whom I haven't seen in person- like internet friends, but my friends for a long time.
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@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
10 Apr 13
That is true! Most of the "friends" I have are online sellers which was helpful with my online business. And there are only a few of them who have become friends. The not caring part, I clearly understand.
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@blackrusty (3519)
• Mexico
10 Apr 13
well i have 2 friends that are real one is my roommate and the other is my partner and well i have tons and tons of people I follow and who follow me very few do i even talk to
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@sk66rc (4250)
• United States
10 Apr 13
Everybody on my facebook friend list are real friends... Of course I don't get to hang out with them as often as I'd like but they are real... Good portion of them I see everyday because I work with them... I have 159 people in the list... Well, few of them are places but those are restaurants that people I know owns... I know one guy who owns a place called "Social Lounge"... He doesn't have a personal facebook account but have that place on facebook...
@polaris77 (2039)
• Bacau, Romania
10 Apr 13
Some of my FB friends are indeed just the way you describe,in fact I communicate seldom,if ever,with them,but there are people with who I communicate even if I haven't met them in real life yet,which doesn't prevent from cooperating with them by sharing and liking each other's posts or links and commenting whenever it is needed.There are indeed people who asked for my FB friendship and I accepted it,but we still haven't contacted me yet and I haven't done it either,to be honest.Anyway,just like in real life,true friends are hard to find even on Fb,but that's what makes them more precious.
@sjvg1976 (41290)
• Delhi, India
10 Apr 13
Hello Kenshin, Even i feel sometimes are FB friends are friends. No they are not I have in total 200 FB friends and I can count some real friends from that list. May 10~12 real friends on the list there.
@iluvusabado (2560)
• Philippines
10 Apr 13
most of my friends in facebook are those that i really know. most of them are the people i met in school. they are real friends for me.
• India
10 Apr 13
Yes Facebook friends are just lije virtual friends.. We do not meet them.. They may not help us in any difficult situation.. But I have a fb friend, who has become my best friend.. :)
• Singapore
10 Apr 13
I hardly know many of my FB friends to be honest. Many are people I knew long ago and hardly keep in touch. I have even been added by people whom I struggle to remember. I did consider reviewing my FB friends list some time back but eventually decided not to bother. Still it shows that most of my FB friends are hardly "friends".
@r1buts (73)
• Indonesia
10 Apr 13
most of my friends on facebook are people i've met. and the other just is a new new friend who had never met. but hose who have interisting things that i will make a friend.
• Philippines
10 Apr 13
maybe, there are times that other are not reliable because they didn't not understands our feelings and emotions.
• United States
10 Apr 13
I know most of the people that are my friends on facebook. They might be people I no longer personally interact with, and many I rarely talk to. I would call a few of the ones that are not family dependable. I do not interact in many places as I once did. My old accounts had many people, though I had met few of them.
10 Apr 13
No most of my 'facebook friends' are just that, online 'friends' I added for games or due to similar interests. Although thats just me plenty of people have a facebook profile with nothing but 'offline friends' added to it. Kind of silly to me since they see most of them everyday. Talk to new and interesting people not people you see every day offline .. Just my thoughts
@jiiiiin (586)
• Philippines
10 Apr 13
5% of my facebook friends are really my closest friends the rest are just acquintance and not so close friends. Whenever I post some problematic status on facebook which is very rare they comment or message me what's wrong like were just talking to each other physically.
@emily7339 (1337)
• Malaysia
10 Apr 13
I had one Facebook account previously but no longer exist now . However, I think majority were just virtual friends whom I do not know. Only a small amount of them were my family members and real friends . So far, we were there just for usual interactions and nothing special going on