what is the figure that appears in the brackets?

India
January 11, 2007 3:03am CST
what exactly is the figure that appears in the brackets below your name? till now i thought that it was the number of friends you have. but now i have 1 but no friends till now. is it the amount that i have earned so far? if so i have opened my account
1 response
@Croquetilla (1797)
• Spain
11 Jan 07
i have 352 this is my rating here in mylot, you need get more that 500 for can copy and paste text to another site as traductor before you need write all this is for prevent the spam. You can get more points when you response other discussions or the people respond discussion start for you. here you can rating the discussion and repsonse and also you should mark some response as best repsonse .Because if you rating the discussion and responses they appear in a top daily discussion and can get more points.