I used to have loads of Facebook friends but I deleted loads and barely go on it got about 450 now. Got a out 125 followers on twitter but I don't really go on that either
My mates used to say people with less than 100 friends are weirdos and girls with over 1000 friends where slags
I have bout 93 fb friends as I hate having a bunch of people on there I dont care about so I like to have it at a bare minimum. And even then I could cull a few people, but I honestly dont really give a crap about fb anymore to do that.
When I went to school and college, Facebook hadn't been invented :eek: both were pre-2003, school being almost last century (I finished in 2000). I guess social media/networks only really took off after I left but then I didnt tend to have many friends as such, I was known and knew of most people I worked/studied alongside but they didn't tend to talk to me too much, other than maybe one or two people. I remember back in the old days of personal homepages and webrings. Ah, I feel old (which at 30 I know tends to annoy older people who say I have no right to feel old at all yet ).
I have a mere 38 friends on Facebook. I've no interest in chatting online insincerely to people from my school days, whom I didn't get on with, and those who are only acquaintances and I hardly ever speak to in real life.
I've only got a couple of Twitter followers because I barely use the site and, other than the spam followers who soon disappear, they're just people who've reciprocated after I followed them.
I have about 120 on Facebook. Mostly people I worked with, wouldn't call them friends but we chat now and then, a couple of close friends and a few family members and in laws. Did have more (who I knew and spoke to regularly in a large group of friends) but when I got a more respsonsible job, I moved on from the stuck acting like teenagers lot and made all new friends. Makes me sound really bad but I'd been growing apart from those friends for a long time.
This is from
5 jobs
7 years of school (I was in a few bands so knew people in other years)
4 years of college (weekend workshops)
2 years of uni (where you're in bands with people in other years, so know a lot of people)
family
I went to a study day in April on social media and how to use Facebook etc. A woman there said she had 4,800 friends and she personally knew them all. She was in her element telling everyone how wonderful her life was, I then asked her how many of her friends would turn up for her funeral if she suddenly died.
Strangely enough she didn't give me an answer.
I have 45 friends on Facebook and 37 Twitter follwers. The Facebook friends I know personally but I have no idea who most of my twitter followers are, it's quite funny.:D
I have 45 friends on Facebook and 37 Twitter follwers. The Facebook friends I know personally but I have no idea who most of my twitter followers are, it's quite funny.:D
Out of my mighty 18 Twitter followers I only know 3 of those . The rest are just randoms . If they want to read my inane tweets about TV then fair play to them
I signed up to facebook a few years ago but have only used it once or twice as I really don't like it. It seems to be all about 'me', endless photos of the same people posing in the same way implying 'look at me, I'm so popular and having such a good time'
I've 647 followers on Twitter which I consider to be more about 'us'. I don't know a single one of them personally and that's just how I like it. If I want to talk to my family or friends I'll phone them or maybe text.
"Friends" is the term used across the board for convenience. Whilst some are friends, most are merely associates or other persons who may prove useful or of interest at some point.
Exactly. It really gets on my tits, all this "oh but they're not real friends" nonsense. If FB just called them "contacts" it would be exactly the same, but the anti-FB crew wouldn't be able to get all smug about it. However, FB's a business, and wants to attract people, so of course it's going to go for nicer, less formal language to make the place look more inviting, more like a place to hang out and chat. That's all. Why it should be such a big deal to people who claim not to care is utterly beyond me.
Exactly. It really gets on my tits, all this "oh but they're not real friends" nonsense. If FB just called them "contacts" it would be exactly the same, but the anti-FB crew wouldn't be able to get all smug about it. However, FB's a business, and wants to attract people, so of course it's going to go for nicer, less formal language to make the place look more inviting, more like a place to hang out and chat. That's all. Why it should be such a big deal to people who claim not to care is utterly beyond me.
It is because of the vanity that is associated with it, as witnessed on here.
I think it's quite easy for someone in their 30s to have hundreds of Facebook friends if you just add everyone you've ever met.
I joined up back in 2007 and quickly got to about 150 just with old school 'friends', family and workmates. However I decided that I didn't want my life being broadcast to people I didn't know so I went through a process of removing anyone that wasn't family or I wasn't friends with in real life. I now have about 50 'friends', the majority of which are family members.
It's a bit of a shame though as it would be good to have a method of communicating with some of my old colleagues without hearing about what they had for breakfast.
When Google+ was introduced I thought that would be a good opportunity to add everyone back as you can easily set 'circles' for who receives which updates - however that never took off (unfortunately).
Can't see any particularly egregious examples of vanity on here- care to point me in their direction?
The point of the thread in general and the replies. Its has the whiff of a slight pissing contest about it as does the whole "friends" aspect of facebook. If one could not display or divulge the numbers of "friends" one has then I would imagine numbers would rarely exceed 50.
Exactly. It really gets on my tits, all this "oh but they're not real friends" nonsense. If FB just called them "contacts" it would be exactly the same, but the anti-FB crew wouldn't be able to get all smug about it. However, FB's a business, and wants to attract people, so of course it's going to go for nicer, less formal language to make the place look more inviting, more like a place to hang out and chat. That's all. Why it should be such a big deal to people who claim not to care is utterly beyond me.
Don't demean the importance of the word 'friend' on fb, it's a serious business for some. There are many who don't get this distinction that you describe and actually fall out with real life friends because they haven't friended them on Facebook, or heaven forbid, defriended them!
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didn;t mean to i am just responding to people who have replied to me
Actually you did post first about how you don't have either.
Which is pretty pointless if you have nothing to contribute about the topic in question.
You then went on to criticize anyone who dared give the amount of 'friends' they have.
My mates used to say people with less than 100 friends are weirdos and girls with over 1000 friends where slags
18 Twitter followers
Don't see most of these people in real life
Trying to spend less time on the social networks .
That isnt really that many when you break it down.
There were about 150 people in my year at school. So lets say i knew half of them from various classes.
At college/uni i studied 6ish different classes, again around 30 in a class
Ive been working at the same place for 2.5 years
Have family scattered around the country, and new contacts from various hobbies.
When you break it down like that 100 isnt really a lot.
I've only got a couple of Twitter followers because I barely use the site and, other than the spam followers who soon disappear, they're just people who've reciprocated after I followed them.
This is from
5 jobs
7 years of school (I was in a few bands so knew people in other years)
4 years of college (weekend workshops)
2 years of uni (where you're in bands with people in other years, so know a lot of people)
family
Strangely enough she didn't give me an answer.
Out of my mighty 18 Twitter followers I only know 3 of those . The rest are just randoms . If they want to read my inane tweets about TV then fair play to them
I've 647 followers on Twitter which I consider to be more about 'us'. I don't know a single one of them personally and that's just how I like it. If I want to talk to my family or friends I'll phone them or maybe text.
no followers on twitter
Exactly. It really gets on my tits, all this "oh but they're not real friends" nonsense. If FB just called them "contacts" it would be exactly the same, but the anti-FB crew wouldn't be able to get all smug about it. However, FB's a business, and wants to attract people, so of course it's going to go for nicer, less formal language to make the place look more inviting, more like a place to hang out and chat. That's all. Why it should be such a big deal to people who claim not to care is utterly beyond me.
It is because of the vanity that is associated with it, as witnessed on here.
It taps into a very unpleasant human trait.
Can't see any particularly egregious examples of vanity on here- care to point me in their direction?
I joined up back in 2007 and quickly got to about 150 just with old school 'friends', family and workmates. However I decided that I didn't want my life being broadcast to people I didn't know so I went through a process of removing anyone that wasn't family or I wasn't friends with in real life. I now have about 50 'friends', the majority of which are family members.
It's a bit of a shame though as it would be good to have a method of communicating with some of my old colleagues without hearing about what they had for breakfast.
When Google+ was introduced I thought that would be a good opportunity to add everyone back as you can easily set 'circles' for who receives which updates - however that never took off (unfortunately).
The point of the thread in general and the replies. Its has the whiff of a slight pissing contest about it as does the whole "friends" aspect of facebook. If one could not display or divulge the numbers of "friends" one has then I would imagine numbers would rarely exceed 50.
and facebook tap into this vanity for sales.
Don't demean the importance of the word 'friend' on fb, it's a serious business for some. There are many who don't get this distinction that you describe and actually fall out with real life friends because they haven't friended them on Facebook, or heaven forbid, defriended them!