Comments on: Fact: The Hundreds Of Facebook Friends You Have Aren’t Real

By: commonsence

commonsence — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 04:24:16 +0000

Yeah most people generally have people they arnt physically friends with or have meet, but who cares it your desition wheather or not you accept theres nothing wrong with bragging about how many friends you have on facebook, maybe it makes them feel good about themselves maybe they have low self esteem and this makes their self esteem rise? facebooks a place to meet new people chat to old friends, most relationships have started over facebook, I know a girl and a guy who met through a mutal friend on facebook they started talking and he ended up moving from italy to australia to be with her there now married and happy so who cares if their FAKE friends its just a social networking website ok.

By: Observer

Observer — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:07:31 +0000

I'd imagine you must spend a GREAT portion of your life on FB, then. Which robs of a more intimate connection with the deeper things in life.

By: Tuck

Tuck — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 01:25:22 +0000

they are real people, but that doesn't make them friends!

By: John Subritzky

John Subritzky — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:44:35 +0000

Well, for every friend I have on facebook,there are at least 10 friends that refuse to join facebook for the C:I:A intelligence gathering platform that it is,,,,, and if you deny that, then you are all just kidding yourselfs,,,,, and if you can keep track of your 1000 friends, maybe you should have children and then see how much your facebook friends matter,,,,,, its all irrelevant!

By: jasonfriend

jasonfriend — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:12:26 +0000

Yeah reminds me of Adam Sandlers myspace routine in the movie Funny People…lol

I think it just depends on how particular you with your network.

By: Mark Drapeau

Mark Drapeau — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:07:43 +0000

Even if Dunbar's Number is accepted as perfectly true, that does not mean that contact/friend/follower #151, 152, and so forth have no value. It is not a dichotomy. They may or may not have value, depending on a number of factors, and the ones that do have value have less than the first "primary" 150, but it is real and finite, and it varies within the 151+ ("extra-Dunbar") group.

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:58:17 +0000

Mine are real. I'm particular about who I send and accept requests from, and I maintain relations with those people. Sorry some people don't know how to be friends.

By: Ally

Ally — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:10:39 +0000

I also wholly disagree with the gender specification. I'm a woman, the majority of my Facebook friends are men (single AND married) and I've kept up a strong, healthy level of communication with them just through writing. I find it's other women who are wary of each other if there isn't "more."

By: Ally

Ally — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:49:55 +0000

I'd rather decide the value of my number for myself, thank you.

I wonder why all these "studies" weren't done based on the number of people listed in one's old-fashioned handwritten address book. I've known people for my entire life (which includes a good 30 years pre-Facebook) who've claimed hundreds of "friends" and "contacts."

By: Erin Kroll

Erin Kroll — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:54:08 +0000

Great article! I think part of the reason facebook use continues to grow is the allure of being able to use it as a means of keeping in touch with old classmates, former coworkers, and people we generally don't see on a day to day basis. It's a means to nurture the relationships outside our circles, it's more distant but at the same time very open.

I don't know how many times i've run into old friends standing in line for coffee or at the market, and I've been able to ask them about their most current life events, soley because I follow along with their updates on facebook.