Originally Posted By Mary Poppins I am surprised that I have about 32 friends though 5 or so never contact me. I am surprised that I have acquaintances who want to be my friend. At first, I thought I'd be sharing deep dark secrets on facebook, but the first time I let an acquaintance in to be my friend, I took on a much more superficial role. My lastest friend who just joined me, used to sing in my choir and has now moved to Edmonton (15 years later). Yet, he still remembered me.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney I only have a few as I have not invited many people, and my page is blocked so only friends can see it. But, one of my friends has over 450 facebook "friends". I don't think I've known that many people in my life!
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs I think I have about 200+... the legit ones are family and friends; the next legit ones are LPers; the next tier are the small numbers who I've met on FB and have similar likes, and the last group (who I slowly elimimate, based on how many friends they have) are the ones I needed for the apps, like MobWars and Metropolis... There are so many LPers on FB, and I'm tempted to friend all of them, but I'm trying to curb that habit, lol...
Originally Posted By SleepingBeauty82 I have 50 and they are all people I have known at one time or another in life. There are probably only about 5 from high school or college that I'm not really in touch with.
Originally Posted By lesmisfan i have about 179 with people from work, friends, and family. and the number is still growing.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I have 309, and have probably declined a similar number. These are mainly people I was close to in childhood or work, engaged in extracurricular activities with rock bands, national youth theatre, sea cadets etc. As well as LPers and some of my european Disney fan friends. It makes it easier in touch. There are about 500 contacts of mine in linked in, be these are for business purposes. I try to keep Facebook strictly social, and no family (other than my wife and in-laws).
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs After my high school reunion 2 years ago, I noticed a lot of the people in my class were adding each other...I suppose as a recognition type of thing. Even though I never talk to them, I still have them in my list.
Originally Posted By ophellia I have 36 now...I had no clue how much I'd enjoy FB! I need to add you Mary! or you add me...ok? I've connected with people from school I havent seen since 1970something...I really love it! I found out everyones real names from here...it's fun...
Originally Posted By alexbook I have 106 "friends" on FB. 74 of those are LPers. The non-LPers are nearly all people I know in the real world as well as on FB. One thing I've found useful is separating my friends into "lists." That way, I can browse what my LP friends are saying without seeing the posts from my co-workers, and vice versa.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs I've actually done that as well. It took me awhile to separate everyone into 'family', 'LP', 'oldschool', etc. As alex said, you can also click on the lists and look at the updates of only those people...
Originally Posted By wahooskipper I'm hovering around 200 but I'm surprised how many folks "friend" me but then ignore any attempts at connecting. I'm not sure what the point of that is.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Maybe they just want to spy on you ;-) Agreed, though I like reading everyone's updates and commenting as appropriate. Or occassionally having a wide group makes for great market testing/pushing the frontiers of my beliefs/finding fun stuff from the internet!
Originally Posted By Mary Poppins Well, I was hesitant to add my sister-in-law as a friend (too close for comfort) but now have put her on "ignore." I check her out separately now and it's worth it to not be bothered by her posts. I am mad at her for not visiting my sick mother in the hospital (along with her husband, my brother). So, I prefer not to have her among my friends. That is my latest manoeveur. I put another person on ignore and then check them out when I'm in the mood for whining.
Originally Posted By Mary Poppins I know someone with 185 friends yet when she posts something, nobody, I mean nobody, responds. Most of my friends don't post a lot. So, it's all manageable.
