It's stupid. Just because you're someone's friend on Facebook, does not mean that you're actually friends with them. I have a bunch of people on my Facebook that I barely even talk to, ever. Some people are just there because I used to go to high school with them. It's more of a social thing so that people can somewhat know what is going on with each other, than an actual measure of how many friends that person has.
With that in mind, anyone who judges anything about other people, based on how many friends that person has on Facebook, is very dimwitted. It doesn't really mean anything. If I were to make any judgements, I would say that someone with a lot of friends, just adds as many people as they can find because they feel like having a lot of Facebook friends, just for the hell of it, where as someone with a very small number of friends on their Facebook, only add people who are actually close to them. Those are the only two kinds of assumptions that anyone can make based on that.
Besides, people are much more likely to get judged on their Facebook profile pictures, as well as their actual photos.
if they have a ton of friends, I assume they don't make a distinction between friends and acquaintances, so why should I think I mean anything to them?
i wish people who agree would vote this up, since someone voted it down.
i don't judge them I don't like the word "judge" but I guess I just imagine how social they are nothing bad about it
like if a person has less than 100 friends then id say theyre not as social and only add close people and haven't been on facebook too long
if its 300-600 then id say theyre pretty social and have been on facebook for years and have a lot of networking
if its more than 700 then I'm like ehhhh they probably just add anyone to be popular which isn't quite safe for girls to be honest, some guys are creeps they just save your pics on their computer I knew a girl who had a fb stalker and he posted her pics somewhere online...scary
i have about 500 something friends and although I don't talk to some of them anymore I still knew them personally at a certain point, like my old job coworkers, my high school versus my college friends now, my family and cousins abroad...so all these networks do add up and I've had fb for about 6 years now I thnk...
Nope, Haven't even thought to look at that when judging them. The way I see it is. . . . "Who am I do judge them" so I know its almost impossible to do. . . cus we all stereotype based on different things. . . But honestly when I do judge someone, I keep that judgment to my self cus I'm not God, so I have no right to do it. . . but while on facebook, when I look at their pictures, I judge based off of them. When I see a a shirt pulled up, swimsuit pics, ect. I tend to think either Prep, or slute. . . or on a guy, I think Conceited.
If I ever were to judge people based on that, I would have a more negative view of people with tons of friends.
I currently have 109 friends. That's comprised of family members, coworkers, and friends from high school and college. It makes sense that I'd know that many people.
My sister currently has 1,324 friends. She's only a junior in high school, and she's never had a job or been part of any social group. There's no reason for her to have that many friends, and I find it slightly ridiculous.
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When I had my Facebook, I noticed that I talked to those people less. I don't know why, I guess it seemed like they were trying to collect friends on there. Especially when these people would add me out of nowhere, I'm not going to be the one who IM's them or writes on their wall. I don't even know who they are. I guess it's because they have plenty of people to talk to already that I didn't really feel the need to be the random person saying Hi.
But I didn't look down on them or anything like that, if that's what you were meaning.
Yes, but probably not what the majority goes by. I think people with a sh*t ton of friends, say around 1,000+, are quite the sociable people but don't try to maintain high quality relationships. I usually think the people with lower amounts of friends, say 200 or less (maybe under 100s), really do have strong friendships and put emphasis on quality than quantity. Then again, those in the night-life scene usually have a way higher count than most people.
I'm one of the former though, so I guess I'd be making fun of myself lol
I voted C "Other".
If the person is a very public person then I expect them to have a ton of "friends". Since they would meet allot of people by being such a public person. i.e. A locally known rapper on my friend list has 2000 friends.
However in general the average person should have around 50-200 FB friends depending on how long they have been on. In general less than 50 means they likely don't use FB that much. More than 200 often means the person is a bit of a attention seeker.
There are exceptions to every rule so I don't read too much into it.
Are you real life friends with all those people?
<100 - perhaps only adds close friends/family and is not very active on facebook. whatever. not judging.
100 - 300 - I think this is the average amount. used to it. not judging.
300 - 700 - seems like a really social person. you'd be a fool to think that they are actually friends with all of those people though.
700< - OK that's just f***ing ridiculous. seems to me that they are trying to appear popular. I'm assuming they've added and accepted friend requests from people they don't even know. boo. don't really have anything against them though.
i, personally, have 140someting friends (says 149 right now). the number keeps shifting though.
my 14 year old relative has 800< friends, which I know is BS. I *know* she loves being the center of attention and strives to be popular, and talks to lord knows who online.
Yeah I'd say you wanna make snap judgments, but there's so many variables to take into account that usually it's not very insightful. Like I might see someone I friended has like 40 friends total. They might just not be into facebook that much, or are super picky about who they friend. I wouldn't think they were unpopular.
Around 200 to 400 seems to be solid, that usually that's really how many people that person can call friends. Girls always seem to have a ton more (for obvious reasons)
If someone has upwards of 900 then it starts to become something of, okay they're just friending anyone and everyone. That or they have one helluva charismatic persona
Yes I do make judgements. Not only about the number but about the whole profile
Such as:
this person is social or not
this person only adds real friends (if the number is low)
This guys only have girl friends not dudes uhhh that's odd
Gee look this guys friends pictures! Only party people...
And I do have a low number of friends (70) but real friends that I can trust I consider about 15
I wish I had more close friends but that's really hard
not off friends, but I do off of pics though. If the first thing you see is someone looking trashed or high, with a red cup in their hand. I automatically assume they're a tool and lack any professionalism.
Depends on the person, if I know their a nerd or really lame and they have a lot of friends, it means nothing, but if they seem like a douche or like they might be popular and they have a lot of friends, then I usually think they must be. If they seem like a d*** or b*tch and they don't have a lot of friends then I also think they must be, but if they seem really nice and don't have a lot of friends they I think their either shy or very private.
I said a, because if they have a ton of friends I assume they are attention whores who most likely add people they don't even know. If they have less than 100 I assume they are very selective of who their friends are (which makes me feel special if they are my friend).
Yes I think the people with 1000 friends are annoying.
Nope, I don't really think it matters, everyone knows that the number of friends it says you have does not reflect the number of real friends you have. To me, being added as a friend on facebook doesn't mean that much. I think that if you know the person, it says more to reject a friend invitation than not to. This applying after age appropriateness has been considered.
Ehh, after you've added new pics, it doesn't even turn out that you're hot. Angled shots and black and white can be DECEIVING. Oh man.
Anyway, to answer the question, yeah I do. Good looking and popular people do tend to have a lot of friends, whilst the less popular people have barely any Facebook friends. There are obvious exceptions where a perfectly normal and cool person just wants to add close friends and family, but they're rare.
i do, meaning that I usually judge them in a negative way. I don't think of having 1000 friends as a good thing. sure they may know a ton of people, but I would rather only be friends with 100 people and have them be my good friends than 1000 people that I don't even know
I don't like how people say that because someone has a lot of friends on facebook that they cannot hold true friendships. I personally have around 200 but my close friend is our school president and she has around 800. She is such a bubbly sweet person to everyone yet she definitely takes time to hang out with her close friends.
i don't care about guys , if it were a girls profile and she had too many friends first thing comes to my mind is she's been fishing out for fame and very egotistic and maybe even a slut in real life ...am honest ..
No they coudl live out in the middle of nowhere where very few people live. They ones who do judge by your fr list should go straight to Hell.. Friends list don't mean nothing this is not a popularity contest in HS.
yes if a girl has too many friends I start to think she's not a sincere person to any of them, but at the same time if she has no friends that's kind of weird as well. I personally like a girl with just a few close friends.
No. I mean, I have 250 + and I know them all personally, but I certainly won't judge anyone. I know some people who only created the profile for friends who attend different schools and for family out of the country
If they have close to 1,000+ friends, I assume they don't really know all of them.
If they have like 100- friends, I assume they want to keep in contact with their family and cose friends only.
i have 390 friends but I don't even use fb that much to be honest... I used to in jr high but now in high school I don't use that much and just communicate with them at school eye to eye where it actually means something...ppl just add me
i like to befriend people ... I don't judge people on the friends list .. I judge them by their profile
no-matter how many friends you have.. but you should have a good profile
Yes I do. I admit it
wow. she is honest and she gets 3 ratings down. shame on the people who rated her down.
that's alright. those people who rated me down are probably the same people with just 3 friends, 2 of which are their parents
lol +1
if they have too many friends (>500),i know they're superficial and more into collecting friends than their actual friends
if they have too little friends (<10), then maybe they have some kind of strange personality that other people don't like
of course it does. it has everything to do with it. I can tell everything I need to know about you from your fb and no, this is NOT evangelina
C: I don't use facebook...
More or less because I can't be bothered keeping it up to date and I have plenty of ways to get in contact with already :>
over 300 friends and I assume the person really likes attention. But I don't think any less or more of them as a person.
if their friends are more than 900, I presume that they don't even know half the people they add on Facebook. they just add it for the sake of having many friends. :) that I don't get.
No, I don't judge based on whether or not their friends are hidden. I just consider it that they want more privacy from people who aren't their friends.
Update: No, I just think that they want to keep certain things private, or that they don't care about "collecting friends" like a lot of people do on there.
No! on FaB I pick up and drop friends daily,i am a player,if You don't Game,Your Lame.
so why keep You around?flooding Your wall with sends? I do You a favor by dropping You :)
its just facebook - no one should really take any site like that seriously! This site is completely different from any other site - this one is an exception!
Yeah I kind of do actually.
if they have over 700 friends I just think it's ridiculous.
it tells me that they add everyone just for the sake of it and it's really not cool.
I do at times. If they add me and they aren't from where I'm from, or no mutual friends with a ton of people on their friends list (1k+) then I think they may just be trollers, so I decline it.
i voted C. everyone knows that the people who have like 1000 friends just add everyone that they've ever met, even if it was only for 5secs or not at all just to make it look like they have more friends. it's stupid.
i assume if they have less then 100 friends they either only add close friends and family and if they have over 1000 then they pretty much add everyone. I personally have about 600 friends on fb and I'm a junior in high school. They are people who I've went to school with and family. Facebook is a great way to keep in communication with people you don't get to see much.
i would say so, no one person could have over a 1000 friends that they talk to everyday. like a lot of my friends have over at least 500, I think is ridiculous.
No, that's silly. I don't really care unless I see a ridiculous amount of friends then I know they just friend everybody in the whole. Especially when you see it nearing 1,000 friends.
No, but if there somebody that I don't know and they only have about 2 friends. I think that it is a spam profile.
No, never. I know people who let anyone be listed as a friend without even knowing them.
I would rather have two real true friends then 20 fake ones.
no I dont, because usually most of the people in the list are just important acquaintances, not really friends
No. Some people just friend a ton of people just to see what they're doing, or to let those people know what they're doing.
if they have TOO MANY friends then ya I do judge them, clearly they just add everyone theyve ever seen and want to be known as someone with a lot of friends. I've got 188 friends, and I talk to almost everyone of them.
I have over 1300 friends, I like people, not numbers. I'd hate to be judged based on some number! I just like to talk to everybody. :)
no I don't judge them on how many friends they have on fb cause I recently deleated most of my friends on their
no, I don't think I so, I start judging girls when they have like slutty pictures of themselves as there defaults. That's when I start judging
I generally don't look at the friend count. Doesn't matter to me.
Not unless they have like 1,000+ friends. Then I think they're probably just adding them to seem cool or something.
People that I know on Facebook are how they are and it not my place to judge them for just being them self I like them to be them self and not to be some one they are not
update: nah I mean they hid their friends so what - we do things for no reason anyway!
No, that's just f***ing pathetic if anyone does that lol.
i do. assumptions I make is whether they're better people than me or not
Before .. week ago .. when my Facebook account were still activated I was already getting pissed because I thought that 40 friends is too much while being too less.
no fb but I found the answers very intriguing, thank you question asker.
If they only have a few friends, it might kind of give you the idea that they're not very social.
But the whole point of fb is to be social, catch up with people.
Some people are just facebook whores ( like my sister :P) She friended a 32 year old because she thought she knew him keep in mind she is 16 She has 400+ friends because she friends randoms
Yeah I guess sometimes. Or I think that they're not into facebook
I think it depends on the person..
Some you don't care about and
others you do...
I don't really notice it to be honest.
No, I just think they want their privacy, like me.
If they have hidden friends I probably wouldn't notice
some people add absolutely everyone they've seen and they don't necessarily know them all that well
I don't really think much about it if they have their friends hidden. I guess they're just more of a private person
Nope. Usually don't even notice.
I'm usually indifferent towards it.
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