How can I increase my friends on facebook

I'm starting to think it would be a good social tool if I used facebook. The trouble is I don't currently have any friends on there. So as I 'have no friends' who is going to want to be friends? It's a chicken and egg sort of thing. The funny thing is I do have friends or at least friend requests on my other facebook accounts. Just none on the facebook account under my real name.

Reply 1

johnnn

LOL
Why don't you just get friends the normal way? Its not that hard to be honest.

Reply 2

lazy smurf

Add your actual friends?

Edit: I read it, you need help, boy.

Reply 3

Roobsa

Original post by lazy smurf

Add your actual friends?

Edit: I read it, you need help, boy.

I think this thread implies he has none.

Reply 4

Mick Travis

Original post by johnnn

LOL
Why don't you just get friends the normal way? Its not that hard to be honest.

That's what I'm trying to do. Meeting people socially etc. However it seems like everyone is on facebook and I'm a bit wary of telling people I'm on there, because they might wonder why I don't have any facebook friends.

Reply 5

damidude

Do what everybody else does, and add people you don't actually know.

Reply 6

ch0llima

Umm, get to know people and then add them?

Original post by damidude

Do what everybody else does, and add people you don't actually know.

Yup, I once knew somebody who did exactly this. He got something ridiculous like 700 friends and probably talked to about 6 of them on a regular basis. Mind you, he had definite social issues and I think he had some kind of undiagnosed Asperger's or autism etc.

I remember when I used Bebo briefly :afraid:

and it had a big warning that popped up saying it was against the T&Cs to add people you didn't know, and you could get banned if done repeatedly.

Reply 7

joey11223

Original post by damidude

Do what everybody else does, and add people you don't actually know.

you could try this OP. I have 80+ friend requests, mainly because of the mutual friend system and some people just jump to add any friends of friends they can to get 1k friends or what ever. Which just spams your news feed with comments from people you don't care about or know...