Emma said:
I hate Facebook because it just feels like it's ALL about how many friends you have, and I barely have any, and those I do have are mostly people who I know online (which is probably obvious since they live all over the place and none of them are in my area)
Same here, I feel stupid, everyone else has hundreds of friends, I have hardly any...but I wonder, how can people have hundreds of friends anyway...are you just supposed to go around adding people that you might have only spoken to once, and call them a friends?
Eeyupp....that's how it works.
Actually,many people will ask to be a "friend" even if you have never talked to them before. The word is meaningless on sites like Youtube,MySpace,and Facebook. In my own case,I'm on Youtube and I comment a bit there and I get friend invites based mostly upon my comments I guess. For example,I just said 1 little word to a 14 year old kid and he apparently found it so hilarious that he invited me to be a "friend". :wink:
In 2 other cases at Youtube I'd never talked to two Chinese people and I wanted to talk to them because one seemed nice and the other interesting and I left them each a quick note about how I was looking for some mainland Chinese people to add to my list and talk to a bit and they are now on my "friends list". (it's hard to talk to mainland Chinese on the net to learn about life behind the "bamboo curtain" so when I saw them I jumped at the opportunity to ask them. :wink: )
For best results in accumulating "friends", it would seem that a cool,sexy name along with a sexy photo is most effective. Then people will gravitate toward you and you can have lots of fake friends and then pretend that you are really,really popular. :lol: If you pick a name like...oh...say...."Blondie"...and then have an avatar that shows a sexy,blonde gal,then you'll get lots of "pretend-friend" invites. :wink: