What is the Point??

there is a big difference between friends and acquaintances, I bet most of these so called friends are just names and or email addresses that they don't even know. Even in real life, people call people friends they hardly now. Oh that's my friend joe what is his last name, I don't know, what does he do for a living I don't know, so how is he your friend we meet in the same coffee shop every morning and say hello. sorry guys that is not a friend that is an acquaintance, somebody you causally know. in cyberland the person that sends you a bunch of forwards and nothing else is a cyber acquaintances. A real friend is somebody you share your life with, they know a lot about you and what you like and dislike, they help you out when you need them, they support you when you need it, they turn your thinking around when you are not thinking logically. That can be done in real life or cyber life and you do the same for them.

What is the point of anything really when you think about it?

i list contest's sweepstakes and freebies so people become my "friends" so they can find my page easily....

When I first got a myspace page I got it for networking, I know that in itself might seem lame, but I am a writer and I find that there are a lot of people like me out there networking to get help on their writing like I am. I do have almost 450 friends in myspace, and no I don't talk to all of them, but I do choose who they are, they are either friends that are on my other friends lists, or they are other writers, movie makers, or musicians. I have found some really interesting people that are into collaborating on a film project in my hometown, no money involved, but we will all get credited and we can all put the YouTube video on our pages. I think that the point that you are asking for is really, if you have 500+ myspace friends, what do you do with them. I personally try to add people that I can talk to or work with on a project. I think it is really all about preference.

To some people it's an ego thing. I don't think it's possible to communicate with such a large number over a period and actually claim you are friends.On the other hand some of them might know something we don't.What if a there is a way to actually market to this list? Maybe that is what they have in mind in future.

I really dont have a clue as to why some people feel the need to have that many friends on their myspace either. I can barely keep up with the 30 i have on mine let alone 500 lol

Have to admit I've always thought of myspace as sort of a freak show, and this would fit that impression. The big numbers might relate to status, thousands of people asking everyone they find to be friends, which is a sort of mythology being put around about how-to-get-points-on-forums. Another, more workable, option is somebody starting a network of some kind. Meaning they use the links for setting up distribution of affiliate nets, MLM or some other commercial purpose. There are so many people running around trying to find paying propositions on the net that you would, inevitably, wind up with something as bizarre as that. You're quite right, you just couldn't do it on a normal "friends" basis, and certainly not without other links. I doubt if thousands of friends could possibly be active. With normal friends, some people on forums do seem to naturally accumulate more friends, and over time a lot of them become inactive. Even here, the numbers can get unwieldy, and I know for a fact, just watching the points, that some of the people on my friends list haven't participated at all for quite a while. The only reason they're still there is because I liked their posts, and they haven't actually cancelled their accounts.

If you do blogs and you want people to read them and share their thoughts so that it's not all phony and artificial like MyLot, you add as many friends as you can and then when you post bulletins, some of them come and read depending on who is on. Why wouldn't you want as many friends as you can get? The more the merrier. We're all connected

if you dont have thousands of friends people will think you are a loser... duh. jk ya its dumb

Perhaps it's because they don't like to say no to the friend requests they get. Perhaps, it's because they have no life and think it's cool to have are highly populated myspace list. There could be a number of reasons why someone likes to have a lot of myspace friends. I know a few people who add anyone who they think seems interesting. Even though they probably never talk to them, they do read their blogs and bulletins.

Half the time it's just a bunch of 12 year old kids that think being on myspace is the "cool" thing to be on right now. So they add as many friends as they can. I'm more surprised at the fact that the people being invited by these people are actually accepting their requests. But I guess, the people they invite are probably the same type of people that have a ton of friends too, so they are just helping eachother out in the long run.

no i dont see the point of that either, maybe that make them feel important or popular, because they feel like they have alot of friend, other than that i dont see the point, i know there is a band with over a million friends on mylot and that is alot of people.