How can people have 500+ friends on Facebook???

josevolution

I like my privacy way to much to be on Facebook you can have it all to your selves ..

Dissidentman

josevolution wrote:

I like my privacy way to much to be on Facebook you can have it all to your selves ..

Yeah right - I see your face all over the TV and in magazines.

All Those Yesterdays

Shoot I only have 56 friends. :shock:

PJFAN_seattle

Quite a few people from the board have tried to add me on facebook, but I always reject, just because we both like pearl jam doesn't mean were friends, and its kinda creepy for some of you to be trying to add a 17 year old girl haha so don't take it personally when i reject you xD
My friend list is only of 29 people and I like to keep it condensed. I used to let everyone from my high school add me but then i realized i didn't really care about any of those people and defriended them lol

yellowled24

I have recently finished a book on war, that delves into the way of brotherhood between troops in certain circumstances, and the author goes into detail about research that has been done about tribes and communities...in a nutshell, studies have found that a community or tribe larger than about 150 people, will not have the close knit support and bonding that a smaller tribe would have...once you get over a certain amount of people, that number being 150, the tribe/community hasnt the respect or brotherhood-ness if you like, to work together and have a good relationship. (it was certainly told a lot better than that and made a heap more sense, but there ya go)

But, hey, its just Facebook :P

I know of a certain someone that has, at last glance, over 1,500 "friends"...but im pretty sure it was just to gain notoriety amongst peers, and to have more people listen to their crap coz no-one in "real life" could be bothered listening any more

chadwick

one day before ya know it
facebook will implode itself

Given To DragonFly

I have 438 FB "friends" & I actually consider myself kinda picky. I barely request anyone, & I ignore all requests from ppl I haven't met in person. Last summer I deleted about 45 PJ fans that I'd never met before, & a few months ago I cleared out about 60 classmates that I was only friends with because I organized our 10yr class reunion in Oct. I keep everyone categorized on there, which makes things much easier. The numbers don't add up right, but that's cause several ppl r in multiple groups:

36= family members
33= professional colleagues
39= friends from college & grad school (I just hung out with ~20 of them at a wedding on Sat)
49= high school classmates that I still socialize with, even if it's not often
24= other friends from high school that weren't in my class
15= ppl I used to play soccer with
22= old childhood friends that I reconnected with
67= friends I met thru my husband or in other random circumstances
137 = PJ fans that I've MET in person (many with whom I am personal friends)

I did recently cave in & start accepting/requesting PJ fans I've never met before: :?46 right now. I only did this because of the PJ fan yearbook, to get to know the rest of the staff... & as "Class Editor" I'm supposed to familiarize myself with the names & faces of anyone interested in being included in the yearbook. So request me if ur one of them, haha... networking, baby!

MysteryTrain

I got slightly less than 300 friends, and at least half of them I've talked to only once in my life. But I don't really care, I'll usually add everybody who 'friend requests' me. Though I may not know 'em personally, I like seeing their concert pics and stuff like that. As for my closer 'friends', I love it :roll: when they talk about every excruciating detail of their little lives.

vital5

aNiMaL wrote:

...because, well, we're not really friends. We all use handles when referring to each other and have never met most.

I'm with you buddy, Long live the CB Radio!
"Breaka Breaka!"

illegal pants

i am obsessed with the family feud app, oh my god.

ummmm have a lot of family/family friends being Greek.. worked at a few places... studied for eons of years.. you just accumulate them i guess.. i'm at about 300? did a big pj cull lately, just 'cos i saw you in the 10c line or said 'lol' to your thread doesn't make us friends :?

Dissidentman

illegal pants wrote:

i am obsessed with the family feud app, oh my god.

ummmm have a lot of family/family friends being Greek.. worked at a few places... studied for eons of years.. you just accumulate them i guess.. i'm at about 300? did a big pj cull lately, just 'cos i saw you in the 10c line or said 'lol' to your thread doesn't make us friends :?

Wow, harsh. And here I thought we were so close.

nuffingman

I have 24 friends on Facebook and am going to get rid of 6. How's that for being unsociable?

Drowned Out

josevolution wrote:

I like my privacy way to much to be on Facebook you can have it all to your selves ..

That makes no sense tho...what information will people gain from facebook that they couldn't elsewhere? What privacy are you losing?
it's not like you have to put your credit card info, phone number and address on your profile or some shit...just dont talk about anything personal, like anywhere else on the internet. if you don't want your pics online, don't upload any....but people can upload pics of you regardless of whether you're there or not. I don't know what info people are concerned about sharing - you're only sharing what you allow to be shared.

To the people who keep talking about other pit members adding them...how are they getting your name? If you trust them enough to PM them your full name....what's the differnece if you talk here or on fb?
I've got maybe 10-15 pit members on my list, and I've at least exchanged a bunch of PM's with them, or have met them in person.....I've never had an add from someone here I didn't consider a friend...

Dissidentman

this thread is as dumb as a bag of marching hammers.

PJFAN_seattle

Well you see on facebook there are some pages like ten club and pearl jam that you can become a fan of, and so i think the ten club page is where many are friend requesting, some dude named demetrios tried to add me like three times lol

Drowned Out wrote:

josevolution wrote:

I like my privacy way to much to be on Facebook you can have it all to your selves ..

That makes no sense tho...what information will people gain from facebook that they couldn't elsewhere? What privacy are you losing?
it's not like you have to put your credit card info, phone number and address on your profile or some shit...just dont talk about anything personal, like anywhere else on the internet. if you don't want your pics online, don't upload any....but people can upload pics of you regardless of whether you're there or not. I don't know what info people are concerned about sharing - you're only sharing what you allow to be shared.

To the people who keep talking about other pit members adding them...how are they getting your name? If you trust them enough to PM them your full name....what's the differnece if you talk here or on fb?
I've got maybe 10-15 pit members on my list, and I've at least exchanged a bunch of PM's with them, or have met them in person.....I've never had an add from someone here I didn't consider a friend...

Drowned Out

Dissidentman wrote:

this thread is as dumb as a bag of marching hammers.

my avatar could pound on your avatar

Drowned Out

PJ_kidd_9-21-22 wrote:

Well you see on facebook there are some pages like ten club and pearl jam that you can become a fan of, and so i think the ten club page is where many are friend requesting, some dude named demetrios tried to add me like three times lol

Drowned Out wrote:

josevolution wrote:

I like my privacy way to much to be on Facebook you can have it all to your selves ..

That makes no sense tho...what information will people gain from facebook that they couldn't elsewhere? What privacy are you losing?
it's not like you have to put your credit card info, phone number and address on your profile or some shit...just dont talk about anything personal, like anywhere else on the internet. if you don't want your pics online, don't upload any....but people can upload pics of you regardless of whether you're there or not. I don't know what info people are concerned about sharing - you're only sharing what you allow to be shared.

To the people who keep talking about other pit members adding them...how are they getting your name? If you trust them enough to PM them your full name....what's the differnece if you talk here or on fb?
I've got maybe 10-15 pit members on my list, and I've at least exchanged a bunch of PM's with them, or have met them in person.....I've never had an add from someone here I didn't consider a friend...

ah, that makes sense...I hadn't even thought of scoping the fan page for women...I'll have to work on my creepiness.

PJFAN_seattle

Hahah good luck with that

Drowned Out wrote:

ah, that makes sense...I hadn't even thought of scoping the fan page for women...I'll have to work on my creepiness.

Kilgore_Trout

PJ_kidd_9-21-22 wrote:

Well you see on facebook there are some pages like ten club and pearl jam that you can become a fan of, and so i think the ten club page is where many are friend requesting, some dude named demetrios tried to add me like three times lol

CALLED OUT, D!

may i be your friend PJ kidd? I promise to keep the creepiness to a minimum

yellowled24

illegal pants wrote:

i am obsessed with the family feud app, oh my god.

YES! Family Feud makes me happier than a pig in shit