What drives a person to collect 3000+ "friends" on Facebook?
I have some friends on Facebook who collect friends. I have one who’s a political activist and has over 2000 “friends,” but his posts are limited to political punditry. He uses it as a tool.
I have another friend who collects porn stars. That doesn’t sound too bad.
Today, I noticed that one friend had added someone I thought looked familiar. I clicked on the picture to find that this stranger lives in Turkey and has over 3000 friends, and she’s barely 20 years old.
Why would someone want 3000 friends on FB? What’s the attraction? What’s the reasoning? WTF?
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I have absolutely no idea, and was wondering myself what the drive is, here. I mean, do these people check up on all these fiends? I highly doubt it.
Following porn stars though, that is pretty cool. :D
I have a Facebook friend who has 3300+ friends. I don’t know where they all come from. I suppose part of it has to do with the fact that he is a well-known college football player. It also may have to do with the fact that he’s lived in two different parts of the country for what seemed like equal amounts of time and made many friends in both states. I’m not entirely sure; I’m friends with him on Facebook because I knew him decently well in high school before he moved back to the East Coast. I’ve never really talked to him about where his thousands of Facebook friends come from, but I know there’s no way he personally knows 3300 people…
Two reasons I can think of is for networking and gaming. But for your average Joe who doesn’t have a business to promote or need neighbors for games, I have no idea.
The same reason they want to be the most popular kid in school. Some people just enjoy being really popular.
What drives people to think of Facebook as the real world, and expect people on another website to want to talk about Facebook? There is something moronic about that (in my opinion).
It’s because of the reason @DominicX stated. When you travel or just go places and meet a lot of people, the typical saying now is “Hey! Add me on Facebook.” It doesn’t matter if you met them once or hung out 3 times. This is multiplied when you’re already popular.
@perspicacious : I’m not sure I understand your post. If I read it correctly, you think this question is moronic. If so, why would you bother to answer it? But I may not be reading your post correctly.
@Blackberry I have an 11 yr old niece who lives in a town in Illinois with 500 people. She has over 300 FB friends. I don’t think she got these friends from traveling. I’ve seen this with my other nieces too. They have over 600 friends, though they are a bit older (17 & 18). It’s like it’s a popularity contest or something. It must be from adding friends of friends, don’t you think?
Social networking disease?
I dread the day someone says to me (face to face) “add me on fb”.
Uhh..how about just a phone number like normal adults?
@Hawaii_Jake I’m with @FutureMemory on this.
Also, in my opinion, children should not even be allowed on Facebook. It was created for college students and I think that’s as young as anyone on FB should be.
@FutureMemory That’s happened to me in real life man, on my two small vacations to Montréal this Summer, no word of a lie.
Who cares. People have their own convictions. Perhaps your friend is thinking in his or her mind, “man the people I know are pretty cool, I wonder how other people represent themselves on this thing, I’m curious, etc.” @perspicacious You do realize it was meant for college students as a means of exclusiveness to make others crave it right? Zuckerberg’s plan did include expanding world wide, don’t be a college elitist who think college people are the only ones who should exist on social media, haha.
@perspicacious I agree with you about children not being allowed on FB. I can’t believe my SIL allows her daughter on there at age 11. I believe you need to be 13 to even have an account, and that’s still too young imo.
Exhibitionism and depravity.
Perhaps it give someone a false sense of importance to have a great number of fb friends. A work the other day a coworker announced that she needed one more fb friend because she currently had 666 friends. That cracked me up!
Those are not really friends as much as gawkers and exhibitionists and attention deprived internet androids. Very inferior models when compared to ultra-sophisticated Fluther cyborgs. Zzngrrkkxkk!
A desperately shallow mind fuelled by an unhealthy desire to be “popular” in an ocean of loneliness & despair. Or it could be that they just like big numbers & shit, I dunno ;¬}
My dad was in the military so I’ve lived in like eight different places my whole life. I have 1,085 friends on Facebook and I do personally know every person haha or else I wouldn’t have accepted their friend requests.
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