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Why do you care? And unless the person is bragging about "How many facebook friends they have" (which I have never heard anyone do before), then what leads you to believe that they care?
Should people reject 200 friend requests because they are worried that they'll appear to have too many facebook friends?
Your perspective (and other peoples') about facebook seems very peculiar to me.
People use facebook to connect with friends. I do not feel that it is unhealthy for me to create a page with basic information for old friends and acquaintances to keep up with me, and vice-versa.
Whether a person has 10 friends or 500 friends is immaterial, and has more to do with the popularity of facebook among their social groups than it does with some percieved personality flaw.
You brought up another issue I have with Facebook, or rather its users, and that's how defensive they get. Why are people who love Facebook so sensitive to criticism? Personally, I don't care if you have 10 friends or 500. But why should you care if it bothers me? The fact that you had to respond at all speaks volumes.
2) How is it that some people have hundreds of friends on Facebook?
3) What do you do when someone irritates you and you no longer want them as a Facebook friend? How is this best handled?
1 - I think around 375?
2 - between going to two different HS, a large uni, being in a sorority, lots of traveling, large church group, my company is large so I add old coworkers (funny enough I have no current co workers), then just random places it adds up. I know all of them. But I guess I don't take the term "friend" literally. It's a networking site and I treat it that way. An old friend from HS is now a real estate agent and he's been helpful on helping sell my home. Another from my sorority is a physical therapist and I asked her a few questions for my younger cousin on how to go about doing that. Another friend I randomly met while traveling recently had major damage to her home and I was able to help her find a charity to provide her with some clothes.
I mean I guess I could just email but in someways FB makes things a little more managable.
3-just delete them? never really had any irriate me, you can block a lot of stuff.
You brought up another issue I have with Facebook, or rather its users, and that's how defensive they get. Why are people who love Facebook so sensitive to criticism?
They probably appear this way to you because you characterize them in an insulting way.
1 3 - my daughters
2. they are not very picky.
3. I walk down to their room and yell at them.
What is facebook for anyway? I only joined it to keep an eye on what my daughters are doing there and who is on their list of friends. I do not see the point of the whole thing.
1- I am near 540 friends at the moment. Frequent activation and deactivation make it hard to know for sure.
2- I made most of them in college. I barely add anyone now. Its easy to accumulate friends in college. Hit up one party and the next morning 4 girls will add you as a friend.
3- I have removed friends before. I don't really care what people think about me online anyway. The profile is private so only friends can view.
My point exactly. Same with Twitter. Just look at how Ashton Kutcher celebrated getting more followers than CNN. Typical Hollywood celeb who worries about how many think he's worth following.
Most people find criticism to be destructive. A lot of times the criticizer also has flaws that need to be acknowledged and changed. People often do not have tact or empathy when they criticize others. They criticize as if they are on a pedestal looking down on your "failures".
There you go. Does that makes sense to you?
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Originally Posted by DennyCrane
You brought up another issue I have with Facebook, or rather its users, and that's how defensive they get. Why are people who love Facebook so sensitive to criticism? Personally, I don't care if you have 10 friends or 500. But why should you care if it bothers me? The fact that you had to respond at all speaks volumes.
My point exactly. Same with Twitter. Just look at how Ashton Kutcher celebrated getting more followers than CNN. Typical Hollywood celeb who worries about how many think he's worth following.
My point exactly. Same with Twitter. Just look at how Ashton Kutcher celebrated getting more followers than CNN. Typical Hollywood celeb who worries about how many think he's worth following.
Well that's a bit different isn't it. If I had a tv or radio show or something, I too would want as many 'friends' on it as possible, because that implies that my show is going to be successful. That makes perfect sense to me. I'm surprised that it doesn't to you.
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