Is the number of facebook friends you have that important to you??

Seachmall · 11-11-2013 06:34PM

All discussion between my actual friends is done in a private group or on chat. Only look at the newsfeed when I'm bored so I've no need to delete people.

birdwatcher · 12-11-2013 10:56AM

100 Friends - that's my limit.
If I add someone new, someone old gets deleted.
Simple enough.

salacious crumb · 12-11-2013 11:10AM

I regularly delete people and have had people then message me to ask why, which would probably be the first time they'd ever interacted with me on facebook apart from sending me a friend request cos they were sitting in the pub with me once, which is why I deleted them in the first place.

That, and inane sh*t appearing on my news feed like "I can't wait for cuddles with my bf". Christ on a bike!

I've also been in the pub with people who I have deleted or have deleted me, and I could not give a sh*t either way.

thee glitz · 12-11-2013 11:26AM

I mostly use Facebook as a back up in case I lose my phone and numbers.
I'm not fb friends with most of my actual friends who I regularly meet.
So that's a No to OP's question.

Gannicus · 12-11-2013 11:30AM

salacious crumb wrote: »

I regularly delete people and have had people then message me to ask why,

Yeah I deleted a few and he's the only one who called me on it. I reckon it takes a special kind of person to get all uppidy about the fact that someone no longer wants to be facebook friends with them.

salacious crumb · 12-11-2013 11:44AM

Big Steve wrote: »

Yeah I deleted a few and he's the only one who called me on it. I reckon it takes a special kind of person to get all uppidy about the fact that someone no longer wants to be facebook friends with them.

I know another guy who regularly gets in strops with people and deletes them, only to send another friend request a few days later. I deleted him too :pac:

we'llallhavetea · 12-11-2013 11:53AM

I hate how many friends I have on the feckin thing, I don't add anyone, the people I give a fcuk about are already my friends. clients add me and I feel obliged to accept them even though I know they are going to be more than likely appalled at the crap I put up.
my account is currently disabled for the second time this month, first time I knew why but this time? not a clue. really annoying

sadie06 · 12-11-2013 11:53AM

I can't remember where I heard or read this nugget of information, but I very much agree with it:

An active Twitter user begins to like people they don't even know.

An active Facebook user begins to hate people that they do know!

I couldn't give a toss about my friend count. Surely that's for people of a certain age, as in below 20.

Unre4L · 12-11-2013 12:48PM

Yea, I deleted 200 people a few months ago, where about half of them I have never met. This was mostly prompted by a barrage of racist/xenophobic reactionary pile of crap following some tabloid stunt. I figured they offended me more than the other way around.

krudler · 12-11-2013 12:50PM

Nope, I have about 90, if it's someone I wouldnt chat to in real life or have a coffee/beer with then I wouldnt add them, simples.

tony1980 · 12-11-2013 12:53PM

What's Facebook?

Amirani · 12-11-2013 12:56PM

I had about 650 at one point, then I started to remove people I hadn't talked to in the last 2/3 months and I ended up having 0 friends.

Potatoeman · 12-11-2013 01:12PM

I keep them to a minimum. I use it for chatting to family abroad. You realise that some people talk nonsense and many people just want to increase their fb numbers. I always try and ask myself if Im happy sharing personal photos with this person.

cloudatlas · 12-11-2013 01:55PM

It's good for keeping in touch with people who don't live in this country. If you're travelling you can see where everyone is and arrange a meet up easily. But essentially it's extreme voyeurism. The amount of problem page articles devoted to facebook etiquette is insane.

Sparky · 12-11-2013 04:04PM

Reminds me of a video I saw the other day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Bkr_udado

Personally the majority of FB friends I have are more so people I actually know and have worked with. Others I do see on a regular basis.

Khannie · 12-11-2013 04:05PM

The number of friends I had was so unimportant that I closed my facebook account about 18 months ago.

YEAH BABY! FREEEEDOOOOOMMMMM!!!!

Hugh_C · 13-11-2013 12:46AM

I had a stack of "friends" but only because my work brought me into contact with a lot of young impressionable (mostly) female students through my photography business. I quickly learnt to accept the friend requests rather than have them bitch about me, but I also very quickly chose to hide most of them. Call me a curmudgeonly f3cker, but I find the birthday reminder dead handy for unfriending people a few months later. I interact with maybe a dozen people on a regular basis. The rest I really am not worried about.

Freddy Smelly · 13-11-2013 12:51AM

Big Steve wrote: »

I went onto my facebook page last night to do some tidying up (deleting people from my friends list unliking pages etc). I really only use it and add people I would interact with regularly and semi-regularly. I usually interect with friends work colleagues I would talk to or socialise with, and friends and family abroad aswel.

I decided to delete a number of people (about 10 or so) that bar facebook and them clicking like on my pics etc, I have no interaction with. Anyway off I went deleting away thinking it's no big deal I don't speak to these people and about half an hour later I get a maill off of one of the people I removed from my friends list basically going mad that I had "unfriended" him.

Bear in mind I do not speak to, e-mail, text or socialise with this person and have not done so for about 2 years but I was berated for "....... ending a friendship of 5 years by facebook and being so cavalier about it." This bloke used to work in the same company and I originally added him as a kind of courtesy based on work and he had a couple mutual friends but he retired there a couple years ago so the little contact we had died off quite quickly. That's right he retired.... he's in his late 50's and he's worried about his number of facebook friends...

Has anyone come across a similar situation or would you be offended if someone "unfriended" you on facebook for the same reasons I have done it. I'm sure some people have unfriended me but I haven't even noticed if they have.

bugger some large fella called steve unfriended me on facebook... off to my crying chair for a good sob now

Is the number of facebook friends you have that important to you??

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