Why are so many people concerned with the number of facebook friends they have?

I think if you have many frends on the facebook website,the people who saw this in your facebook will feel you are especilly person,or good boy!

I do think that there are alot of people that tend to just add people even if they do not know them, just to make the numbers up to make it look like they have got loads of friends.I think that it do not matter how many friends you have got, as you are the one that uses your face book account and noone else.

One of my friends was keen to have 100 Face Book friends. He put out Face Book friend requests to friends of friends. Some of these agreed to be his Face Book friend. Her didn't know any of those people. Even worse he put out friend requests to anyone with the same surname as him. Funnily enough last year on Christmas Day he got a message off a lady. I had noticed that lady had given me a friend request. I asked if two of my friends knew her and they didn't. I wonder why the three of them have a complete stranger as a Face Book friend. I could care less how many Face Book friends I have.

I personally don't look at the number of friends I have on Facebook. I'm like you; I take quality over quantity any day of the week. It cuts down on the drama, which is something I absolutely don't want any more of.

Me too, I don't care if I don't have lots of friends on facebook. Why do you need many if not all of them are true to you right?....What's Important is true friends, because true friends stays with you no matter what :)

I have been a member of facebook for a few yrs now and am not too concerned with the number of friends. Most of the time the people dont live in your own country and you never really talk to them. By letting lots of strangers on your FB they can access personal info and even become online stalkers. We all know they are out there.

Hi. ebony37. They are concerned because they want to be in competition with each other. They want others to see them as having it going on. They want to be liked and appreciated. I don't have that many friends on Facebook, and I don't care either. Because when it all falls down to it, I only have a few certain amount of friends that I call my "True Friends" anyway.

For me, I don't care how many friends in my Facebook account, I am more concerned on the quality of my friend list. Ideally i wish all my friend in my friend list is good friend of mine. I think some is concern about the number of friend in their friend list because the number may somehow reflect how sociable is that person. Similarly, i would also judge a new friend the same way based on the number of their friends.Thanks.

Some people use Facebook as a tool for networking; or for promoting their business or venture. As is the case with any marketing ploy, big (more) is always better. A singer can connect with fans and a politician can create a direct link to his/her constituency, for example. While it may have been designed as a site for staying in touch with friends, it is being utilised for so much more.

I do not care less about my number of friends too. I have 293. I deleted 3 people from that since I am not really close to those people anyway. Some has 4200 plus.. seriously? I bet they do not even know 3000 of them personally.

Yes you are right many of my friends often say that that they have over 400 friends in fb but i never care i just add those whom i know and can talk too i have added many unknown people too but if they are in my friends list i like to talk with them i don't care how many people one should have in fb its a site meant to share our life with our friends whether they are less or more who cares

i think it is the kind of friends that count and not the number, but many people love to be popular. I think that is the main reason;popularity.

Well for me I don't really care of having many or less friends as long as you can communicate on your loved ones and good friends. That's what matters most.

Thats so true. It always bother me so much. They think is like a competition of who has more friends on facebook. Those people who has five hundred or thousands of friends in their profile, what a lie! I bet they never talk with most of them. Thats why when this new year started I took my friends list and made a huge clean up. And I felt much better just keeping my real friends.

I don't even have an account anymore but I think when I had it I only had 16 or something. I really can care less! There's so much other things to worry about in life.

I do not have a facebook account. but I was surprised by the people who often spend their time for facebook and proud of the number of friends they had. I never met the children aged 10 years of racing to get the most friends on facebook. This reflects what?

It really depends to a person. If he or she wants a lot of number of friends then he/she would care. I also know some of my friends who add someone on Facebook if even she don't know them personally. Her reason is; she wants to add more friends so the other may think she's popular because she have a big number of friends in Facebook! Its really silly for me!

I have wondered many times too.I began to think that it concernes some kind of a low self esteme.It may be painful for a person who is not secure in himself to let all the comunity ,in such a large web like facebook,consider that he is not popular and people dont like or approve him.I myself prefer to have very few friends because that way my wall isnt full of stupid things which people i dont care about had written and i can see what people who i really am interested in for some reason write or post or what kind of pictures they upload.I prefer fewer people in facebook because I would like to call my facebook friends only people who are really my friends in my real life.