Does people in your facebook friendlist are really your friend?

I have befriended people on facebook; and I have gotten other friend requests from this. It is not so bad for me. My facebook account is really quite simple. I don't say too much or show too much. I do not worry about getting friendship requests because it is just that, a request. Eventually, you allow for someone to be your friend or unfriend them if you choose to. Whether the people you choose to accept as your friend are what you consider a friend, acquaintance or something else is up to you. We always have the choice to unfriend at anytime.

Yeah, i stopped adding those i don't now personally and i deleted some of them too. it is just so crowded with all the updates and stuff. FAcebook does suggest some friend- if you have a friend in common that person is suggested to you.

I do have a lot of people that i don't even know as a friend on face book, but it is because they add me. I allow it until they proove otherwise. If i see they they are trying to be something they shouldnt or arent then i just eliminate they. It is as simple as that. There are many accaintences also. I usually add poeple that have most interests that are in common with mine. Like this we can share different opinions about a certain subject.

Hi Yes, in my fb account's friend list all are my friends only. I have fronds from my school time and college time there, others are family. I have account there specially to get in touch with those friends only, I am doing no extra activity using my face book account.

I make it sure that I only accept those people whom I know. I don't like to accept people whom I don't know. A friend had experienced accepting friends in the facebook without checking if she knew that person. Later on, she found out that one of the person she accepted was a poser and got some of her pictures without her permission, scary!

Most of my facebook are people who friended me to play games. I have been deleting a lot of the people I dont know and I dont talk to. I have over 1,000 friends, and that is mostly because of mafia wars. I think facebook does have a list for acquaintances, Im not sure.

Well most of it there are friends there or siblings or people I used to hang out with when I was at school or university. I'll go with a 90% friends/siblings/classmates and a 10% people added me or found in the internet.

Hello Sherly, I have been on facebook for over three years now. I would say that over 90% of my friends there are the ones whom I know personally. There is a small fraction of people who want to get connected after reading my blog or they have some queries based on my experiences and they want to add me up. I can't say no to them and they are the ones I've not really met and probably won't call them friends.

If you get bothered with that, set your account to private. You won't get bothered again.

a pleasant day sherlysinguran, with reference to your topic, for me there are a different types of friends namely acquaintances, close friends, colleague friends and simple friends. so whenever i am logged on to my facebook account, i do classify them accordingly. indeed they are all my friend but they are classified according on how we interact and treat each other.

Back when I actually was on Facebook, I did get a lot of requests from people wanting to be "friend"( a term that has gotten rather watered down thanks completely to social media). Funny enough, I racked my brain trying to figure out more than a handful of conversations that I have had with these types of people who wanted to be my friend. Granted, I could tell that there were a few people who I got along with well enough. But there are times where people just really enjoy padding their friend lists to absurd degrees. I really think that there should be friends and contacts but the point is moot as I'll never return to Facebook to begin with. There are just so many people who are trying to pad their friend list by sending out requests to every old class mate, even if they have never said more than two words to them in real life. Madness I tell you.

I have few acquaintances in facebook but I make sure that they could be easily unfriend if something might have happened.

I don't really accept friend request unless I met or know the person. So, mostly the people on my friends list are my friends, but some of them are not that close.

hello friend, they all are my real friends .i dont have friends that i dont know in my facebook thanks for this disscusion

I know what you mean. Some people have over 150 friends and I can't help but think some of those people are just because they know them. I only have about 17 so most of them are people I know well. Bugt even some of them are people I haven't talked to in years. But a few are friends that I had at a company that I was let go because I didn't have enough sales, but everybody liked me. Even the manager who had to let me go because the owner told him to. So maybe in this case friends and acquaintances can be the same.

Most of my friends in facebook are my family and relatives..and some classmates before. i am quite careful in adding friends. And i don't want to see updates of people i don't even know. I think facebook does suggest some friends of friends..

The people on my Facebook are people I personally know or are one of my friends. If I don't know them then they are not added onto my FB. I think most people(most especially young people)think it's cool to have thousands of friends added onto their FB page. They add people they do not know onto their FB accounts. This is not only ridiculous to add people you don't know on your FB page, but nowadays it's also very dangerous as well.

As you have said, it is a little bit crowded having invites from people you actually don't know. But sometimes when you view the ones you thought you don't know at all, you end up accepting that invite because that person is familiar to you with information you hace similarities like school. Actually there is a setting in fb that can group friends according to your preference. I just can remember where it is because of the updated version of fb - the tineline thing.

Well, it's an interesting thing. In my language, that list is called the acquaintance list... so all people are acquaintances (but what I really don't understand is why guys whom I don't know try to befriend me... seriously... I'm not going to date over facebook... and people I've seen once in school), but friends... only a bunch.