Know All of Your "Friends"?

I signed up for myspace as a way to get back in touch with old friends and communicate with my current friends. I wasn't really looking for any new friends. So, I know everyone on my list personally. Some of them I know better than others. I few I have just met recently (in class, through other friends, etc.) and am still getting to know. I also use Myspace as a way to keep in touch with friends who have moved away. I have a friend who spends a lot of time on the internet and has friends all over the country that she has never met personally. She meets them through several sites, blogs, journals, etc. - not just Myspace. So her list is huge. I personally spend way too much time on my computer as it is between work and class, so I prefer to try to avoid relationships that require so much time on the net. It works for her though and she has even dated a few guys she met online and had some success.

I'm on Myspace and it's a good way to make friends.

I just have people I know as friends on myspace. I like the site and have enjoyed "decorating" it with music, videos, pictures and such. I also get to see what my kids are up to on it.

well half of my friends in friendster i don't really know personally.i add them up because i want to get to know them and make friends with them

I know all of them in person. I think there may be one guy I added for networking affliations because he's a web designer too. I'm not into strangers and stuff on myspace because of the fake crap. I have a whopping 60 friends, woot.

No I don't know all of my friends on MySpace personally. I don't believe there are exact rules as to what is a friend to a person. I have more acquaintances than actual friends. But this is true of everyone in life. There are many of my friends on MySpace that I have alot in common with, or that I admire. To me the point of MySpace is to network. Whether it be keep in touch with someone, promote something, get the word out on something or just feel important. I think it is a way for people to communicate. And on another note some people who are very shy may find that it is easier to express themselves on there. Networking is different for everyone. If someone wants a bunch of friends on MySpace then that is okay with me. I don't really care whether they know them personally. It is harmless and it is a way for people to express themselves Okay by me! Thank you for this topic

I know almost everyone on my friends list. There are a handful of people I do not know and I added them because I got to know them in group forum discussions. I found them interesting so I added them. I mostly use myspace to track down friends I haven't seen in a long time. Myspace is amazing for that.

Actually yea...most of them...most of them are relatives (nieces, nephews, my two kids) or are old friends and so on and a couple new friends (some from here).....

Most of the people on my myspace profile are people who I have known personally, co-workers at one point in my life, or just acquaintances. Other than that, I add favorite bands, sports teams, and television shows that I like to have updates on regularly. My personal list is only 99 people total, so I try to minimize the people on my profile. My younger sisters, meanwhile, they are both in the thousands, and for all I know it's just a mixture of friends and people who request them, including those bands and such.

well even if I or anyone else here on mylot is having , say, a 100 friends and he does not know them all personally and particularly, one must realsie that mylot is a place to discuss problems and simulatenously make friends....i don't believe at all that you really have to meet people in person to become their friends.... we all here on mylot are good people.... we have faith in eac other and so we very very openly discuss our all problems with each other -- some of them are so secret that you'd never like to discuss those with your friends in live....andi am sure for that.... then think yourself,,, isn't it hving such friends a better option who actually listen to ur problems and answer them so efficiently,,, rather than having comrades to go with for a disco or something?

i know them all, sorry..fron elementary to present friends!i can't help it,i have a lot of THEM!

I know MOST of the people on my myspace friends list. Some of the others, are people I've been talking to online for years, and then some are people that live near me that I met on myspace before we moved here. I don't usually accept people that I don't know at all, unless there seems to be a good reason.

I have a total of maybe 31 friends on my list. I do not know all of them personally, but many of them are family, old school friends I found and some that have become my best friends. I believe you can have real friends, even best friends online. They are the ones that take the time to talk to you, that are in your messengers, that care enough to ask how your day is going. I may not be close to everyone on my list, but I know they are all quailty people. Ones I can depend on for a good conversation and a shoulder to cry on when I need it.

I have 63 friends on myspace and the only one that I actually don't know is Tom, haha. But they're all either family, my current friends or people that I went to high school with. I see no point in adding 500 people that I don't know at all!

I cant honestly say I dont know everyone on my friends list yet... some of them are famous and some of them are new people i have met through myspace... Obviously I talk to all of them... I have not made one friend request being on myspace (bad i know) but all the friends i have are people that have added me. The people i have in my top friends are people i know but there are people on there like DJ Cammy etc etc who have added me cuz i know one of the bands on my friends list and they found me through them. But I do talk to a couple of the famous ones... eg Tom Huddlestone... A footballer over here in UK... but i have spoken to him for years as i dated one of his mates. I am trying to find more people i know rather than have adds off people i dont know

In my opinion there may be friends but you can not know everybody! It is said that every one has very few real friends (means 2/3/4, not more) and who has many friends in circle may not have real friends and if have then few will be there! Because every individual is much more aware about belongings and so such a choice plays its role! Apart from that there is no need to know every friend under catagory. Some time friends are socially attached some may working colleges, aome are from our area and so on. I dont think that we have to know everybody, but at rthe same time we can know the area of friendship and so aware about that friendship and related requirement! And yes net friends are different totaly: Here the criteria and processes of interaction and other dimensions are so different! So the friend term has some thing new, say new dimension which is related with communicational contact and so talks are determining that friendship when it starts first! And yes there are possibilities of a long term friendship and like minded ness also affecting due to frank communication and open discusions! Now say in this situation what we can do? and how we can keep knowing track? some how our guess and intuitive sense is the main factor to know the real friend! right?

I know all of my friends, except like the famous singers that I added =) Most of mine are frineds from high school, or other mommies that I recently met.

Most of the people on my myspace aren't people i personally know. I have a few that are, but the ones i want to get in contact with i can't find them. But i like to meet new people who i think i would have something in common with. I don't really have that many on my page anyway, i prefer quality over quantity. Alot of people do play it like who can get the most friends and such but i'm not like that. I don't know how people do it, but i couldn't keep up with having 500 people on my myspace page, you can't keep up with everybody.

making many friend is not a great thing but makin good friends ia the greater one...... i dont have my account on my space but i have account on simillar page it is orkut and her ei have very few frieds but all of them are my good friends and i know them personaly

First of all, I TOTALLY love myspace! I use it mostly to keep in touch with friends from around the world...I've moved quite a bit and since a lot of my friends from high school and college are either in the military or married into the military, they move a lot too! So of the 170-ish friends that I have, I know all but 4 of them "in real life." The other 4 are from a bulletin board that I belonged to when I was trying to get pregnant -- they were good at keeping in touch and interesting to talk to, so I added them to my friends list. Otherwise I have quite a bit of personal stuff on my page that I wouldn't want just anyone (ie: bands, etc) to see. As far as the 500 friends thing -- maybe it has more to do with how many places they've lived. Like, they're not necessarily FRIENDS with all 500 but they knew them...acquaintences, if you will. I mean, if you went to college at a big university for 4 years, think of how many people you would have run into! Or even if you went to one for 2 years and then transfered...yikes! Some people are just really social I guess.