Comments on: How Many Friends Do You Have? Not As Many As Me!

If you realy want to know who has the most friends on facebook, check this application:
http://apps.facebook.com/themostfirends/

It classify users according to the number of friends they have.

By: DjMikeNIke

DjMikeNIke — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:08:51 +0000

I Have 4,399 Yea Buddy

Facebook.com/DjMikeNIke

By: DjMikeNIke

DjMikeNIke — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:08:51 +0000

I Have 4,399 Yea Buddy

Facebook.com/DjMikeNIke

By: Vitak

Vitak — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:32:45 +0000

Research conducted at MSU has found that after a certain point (in the case of this study, the difference between having 300 and 500 friends), people's impressions of users as socially attractive begin to decrease, suggesting that you really can have too many friends on a SNS. Once your numbers get too high (assuming you're just a regular person and not a web “celebrity”), you just look like a friend whore.

Here's a link to the citation and abstract, for any who are interested:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/1194...

By: Vitak

Vitak — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:32:45 +0000

Here's a link to the citation and abstract, for any who are interested:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/1194...

By: Suzanne Lainson

Suzanne Lainson — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:23:15 +0000

I've run band sites on MySpace. In the early days, the game had been to add as many friends as possible to show the music industry how popular you were. But once automated friend adders were developed and a no-talent band could easily rack up 20,000 friends, numbers of friends became pretty meaningless. And the more fake friends you had, the more spam you had to deal with.

I've gotten into Facebook relatively recently. I add friends as they are suggested by Facebook's "People You May Know" list. If I see a logical connection, I'll send a friend request. If I don't see any real connection, I won't request an add. Similarly, if people approach me first and if I don't know them and they don't explain a connection and I don't see one, I won't add them.

I've got quite a few Facebook friends now, virtually all of them I genuinely want to follow. What will keep me from going after sheer numbers of people on Facebook is that I actually read everything that shows up via the Live Feed. I pay attention to what everyone is doing. Since I don't have unlimited time or interest to follow the masses, I don't see myself going after numbers just to have numbers. I don't know what my upper limit on Facebook friends will be, but I guess I will find out at some point.

As a writer, I certainly don't mind having an audience, and I'll definitely seek out opportunities to be read, but if I am implying that I am available for a dialogue, I will try to be available.

By: Suzanne Lainson

Suzanne Lainson — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:23:15 +0000

By: Tom Ribbens

Tom Ribbens — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:45:52 +0000

While I have relatively a lot of Facebook friends, and I would not call most of them real friends, I do really know who they all are, and in 99% of the cases have talked with them offline. For Facebook, that is my criteria to ask to friend someone there.

Other sites, like Twitter and Friendfeed, are different for me. Where Facebook is for (re)connecting to existing contacts, these others are a way to talk to new people.

By: Tom Ribbens

Tom Ribbens — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:45:52 +0000

Other sites, like Twitter and Friendfeed, are different for me. Where Facebook is for (re)connecting to existing contacts, these others are a way to talk to new people.