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The great facebook popularity contest

So, something got me wondering - How seriously do you take Facebook?

Do you have hundreds and thousands of friends and how many of them do you talk to? Have you ever made new friends via FB? Got to know people better on FB than you could face-to-face? Re-connected with long lost friends or casual acquaintances and got to know them even better than back in the day? Has that site been the cause of any real drama and fall-outs? Ever felt the need to really do your page up in order to make yourself look more cool and with it or just not bother much? Ever sent out friend requests to randoms you have never met but actually get accepted as friends?

Discuss. :smile:

Reply 1

haz220807

- I have hundreds but not thousands of friends on there and I probably talk to about 20% of them regularly.
- Never made a new friends through it, I only add or accept people I know.
- No.
- Have reconnected with long-lost friends ye.
- Don't think there's been any drama with it.
- I do try and make a good impression on it, conscious that people will read it.
- Never sent a friend request to a random.

I don't have one.

So, something got me wondering - How seriously do you take Facebook?

Quite

Do you have hundreds and thousands of friends and how many of them do you talk to? I hav 278 friends and I recently got rid of all the ones i didnt care about :P
Have you ever made new friends via FB? noop
Got to know people better on FB than you could face-to-face? yep, the guy im seeing atm found me and we chated on FB after meeting at a party
Re-connected with long lost friends or casual acquaintances and got to know them even better than back in the day?well my long-lost cousin found me :smile:

Has that site been the cause of any real drama and fall-outs? noop
Ever felt the need to really do your page up in order to make yourself look more cool and with it or just not bother much? haha NO
Ever sent out friend requests to randoms you have never met but actually get accepted as friends? yeep, I added all the other people with the same name as me (only 4 and 2 accepted :P

Discuss. I answered :P

Reply 4

Cupcakee

I have around 400 friends.
Honestly, most of them I do know. But obviously, not 400 close friends.
I have recently made a really good friend through facebook, but he is in my friend's band, so not a stranger anyway.
Girl I used to be really good friends with in first school found me on facebook! That was funny..
I don't normally send out requests for friends
It once caused drama when there was a picture of me dancing with someones' boyfriend at a party...

Reply 5

FrustratedHistorian

Do you have hundreds and thousands of friends and how many of them do you talk to? 286 friends..
Have you ever made new friends via FB? no
Got to know people better on FB than you could face-to-face? both
Re-connected with long lost friends or casual acquaintances and got to know them even better than back in the day? yeah
Has that site been the cause of any real drama and fall-outs? yeah...a sort of photo war
Ever felt the need to really do your page up in order to make yourself look more cool and with it or just not bother much? not bothered..hardly any info on it
Ever sent out friend requests to randoms you have never met but actually get accepted as friends? on 2 occasions

Reply 6

Zweihander

I deactivated my account last week, I dont believe it took me one year to fully realise how much of a waste of time it is. While it certainly did make socialising more convenient, it came at the cost of more or less destroying all face-to-face interpersonal communication between me and my friends.

Reply 7

elisabethbridge

So, something got me wondering - How seriously do you take Facebook? Not seriously in a way to use it to look cool. It's a good laugh with photos and whatnot sometimes. And a good way to stay in touch with people who don't live near me.

Do you have hundreds and thousands of friends and how many of them do you talk to? 162 friends, out of which I'd class about a third of them as friends and people I hang out with/keep in touch with regularly, then another third is acquiantances who I don't keep in touch with (at least regularly), but who I'm friendly with, the rest are people I knew when I was a kid and have nothing to do with them anymore but they've added me or people from my halls and course that I don't talk to anymore. Have you ever made new friends via FB? No. Got to know people better on FB than you could face-to-face? I have, two of my friends back home because I keep in touch with them regularly now when we live in different countries, although at school we weren't actually that close. Re-connected with long lost friends or casual acquaintances and got to know them even better than back in the day? Nah, not really. Has that site been the cause of any real drama and fall-outs? Yeah, there was a really out of order rude comment on a photo of me that people saw and well, I never hung out with this circle of people at all after that. Not all their fault, the comment wasn't my fault, but it sure stemmed from my stupidity. Ever felt the need to really do your page up in order to make yourself look more cool and with it or just not bother much? No. I haven't changed my profile picture for 18 months and I don't display much personal info (favourite things, activities etc.) Ever sent out friend requests to randoms you have never met but actually get accepted as friends? No, I don't add people I've never met.

Discuss. :smile:

Reply 8

MazalTov89

Do you have hundreds and thousands of friends and how many of them do you talk to?
I have just under a hundred, only accept adds from people I know.

Have you ever made new friends via FB?
One of my close friends at uni I first 'met' on Facebook

Got to know people better on FB than you could face-to-face?
No

Re-connected with long lost friends or casual acquaintances and got to know them even better than back in the day?
Reconnected with an old drama teacher of mine and an old school friend.

Has that site been the cause of any real drama and fall-outs?
Yes - photos I took on a recent trip to Poland with uni friends caused a fall out with my home friends :erm:

Ever felt the need to really do your page up in order to make yourself look more cool and with it or just not bother much?
I don't bother.

Ever sent out friend requests to randoms you have never met but actually get accepted as friends?
Never.

Reply 9

whitepearlbaby

I've got under 50 friends and I don't take it that seriously, it's good for "meeting" people I'll meet at university in advance. Other than these uni students, I only have real friends on there. I don't bother adding people I've only met once or I'm not in contact with.

Reply 10

Irrelevance

Couldn't actually give a **** about facebook.

Reply 11

h-star

I deleted mine a few weeks ago.. very happy I did, that crap was taking over my life :biggrin:

Reply 12

Farmboy_Pip

i've recently removed about 150 friends and i'm still going..

i'm only keeping close friends/people who i have a history with/people i talk to.. (but i might get rid of these as well)

i'd ideally like about 50 friends who are actually good friends.

i'm not getting rid of it because it's easier to keep in contact with people.. also because i fear phonecalls and hate texting.

Reply 13

Spanghew

I have 25 friends on facebook, because I only use facebook to arrange my social life that I have with my real-life friends.

Oh, but I do have all the people I work with added, regardless of whether I like them or not,because I feel it would cause tension in the workplace if I refused their requests.

Reply 14

Melting Sugar.

robocop1andahalf

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Well, I don't have hundreds and thousands of friends - i've got less than 300 - but I talk to about 70 of them (mainly because a lot of them rarely use facebook) if stuff comes up on my homepage. tbh i'd talk to more if they used facebook more etc etc, but I don't have anyone on there that I wouldn't talk to.

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I don't accept random adds, so no I haven't made new friends via facebook. I have got about 5 people from TSR on there but I've spoken to them lots on MSN before facebook was even mentioned.

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I have re-connected with old friends and casual acquaintances, it's not about being part of a popularity contest but it's good to catch up on those missed years and see how life has been for them. In fact it's one of the things I love about facebook as otherwise I might never have seen those friends again which would have been sad considering they were quite dear to me as a child (i'd known them since I was 2 till we left for secondary school and I moved away etc)

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On my profile? No, no drama really. Define "drama" anyway. Relationship status changes are usually good for catching up on gossip. And you have to make sure your profile settings are ultra private so you don't have various family members seeing THOSE photos etc etc. Some girls in the year below had a massive facebook spat all over a status on a public facebook profile - that was certainly dramatic! OH actually when some of the lads uploaded a certain photo and a certain video to facebook they got into big trouble into school.. mm

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I'm really not bothered. I upload quite a lot of photos on there but only because i'm the only person in our group with a camera and people ask me to :sigh: . Although I have a funny story about people taking what is on a facebook profile seriously: It made me LOL when one of the "popular" girls came up to me once and said "Oh Hannah I was looking at your profile on the photos and you actually do quite a lot outside of school and you're a lot different to outside of school - in a good way" - seriously :facepalm2: - i'm guessing they take facebook very seriously :sigh:
I have quite an empty profile really as I got paranoid about people stealing my information (this was before I set my profile to ultra private) and deleted all my information about favourite films etc etc. So I don't look that interesting really.

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No! That's a little strange. There's accepting a few (as in less than 10!) people you've spoken to on MSN a lot and then there's accepting complete randoms.

Well, that was a waste of my life. Not that anyone is even going to read that.

Reply 15

Lex Talionis

Do you have hundreds and thousands of friends and how many of them do you talk to?

Have about 400 friends, could cull about 100 of them though.

Have you ever made new friends via FB? Got to know people better on FB than you could face-to-face?

Its easy to talk to people who you may have just met during an outing and then you get to know them better via FB chat or posting bits on their status or walls.

Re-connected with long lost friends or casual acquaintances and got to know them even better than back in the day?

Not really, only keep old school friends just to see how/what they're doing.

Has that site been the cause of any real drama and fall-outs?

Yeah, very much so.

Ever felt the need to really do your page up in order to make yourself look more cool and with it or just not bother much? I keep applications to a minimum and I never do those stupid quiz tings. I do fill out my info profile to detail though.

Ever sent out friend requests to randoms you have never met but actually get accepted as friends? No, I have no desire to know any strange internet randomers.

Reply 16

Meliae

I generally only add/accept people I actually like and talk to regularly. There are a couple of exceptions but I'd like to trim it down even more. I have filled in my page properly but I don't really do much else with it. No to everything else. Oh someone I didn't know added me and I sent them a message asking who they were and had a fairly long fb conversation with them. Was someone who went to my school a few years ago and I never met. Never actually accepted them as a friend.