Why would anyone need 2,788 facebook "friends"?

[Quantess]

One of my facebook friends has, at last count, 2788. Nearly every day I get an update saying he just added 8 or so new friends. He was an old classmate, not a close friend, but I accepted his friend request anyway. I assume he friend-requested every single person in our school. Nothing wrong with that, but where does it stop? Does he want everyone in the world to be his fb friend? (And they really do appear to be from all over the world).

I can only assume he sits at his computer and sends out tons of friend requests to complete strangers. What is the point?

[MiddleFingerMom]

1. I think it might help someone like me...

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...be 2,788 times (sob) less lonely?
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[RandomThoughts]

2. Well I don't send out friend requests, that would be an assumption of effect.

but in intent I think a person should act in friendly ways which would achieve the same thing in some views of existence. But to tie oneself to effect, is to allow for some things to try and change someones intent from areas outside of a persons control.

A person has complete control over intent, and limited control over effect. So something like a friend request in the form of being nice, would be the intent of being friendly, not trying to get someone else to agree to be a friend, since that would be someone else's decision.

[jobycom]

3. Now I understand your name.

:rofl:

[RandomThoughts]

4. I hear that alot.

But it is a good point, some people want to control others, that thought counters the thought of wanting to control others. Intent not effect, important when thinking on topics of free will.

[jobycom]

5. Sure.

But it was still only tangentially connected to the OP. :rofl:

[RandomThoughts]

7. It was connected.

The question was why would someone want many face book friends, and why would they send friend requests.

I did not answer why people would want face book friends, accept vaguely with concepts of different realities, might have been a couple posts ago that it was posted though.

Then the concept of sending friend requests was the major point of my comment.

A friend request is an action of asking someone to do something, and puts something on their action. It seems better to be nice, and not worry about return of friendship.

That is just like the post on the two ferrymen, where the one that goes to the good place returns the friendship. And that factor also defines the world, and reality also. Many people live in concept of 'what is in it for me', not unconditional attitudes. Or it could be that people can not perceive niceness making a break between people. It is a fascinating topic, and really shows much about reality.

For instance, and part of the reason I started posting, I have been able to deduce a difference in realities from online and real world, and some similarities, making online really being a different form of reality then would be thought by effects that do not occur across to real realities. Although real realities are limited to range of individual sight, where online ones have a larger range, but are different in reality. Hard to explain, but basically there is a large break in reality online, or in real life, dependent on perspective, so that leads to concepts of need for better information systems, since their is an imbalance in information systems and real world reality. It might be deception, or program, or perception, but some secondary effects that should cross over to real world do not, and some that should not do. So their is a flaw in information flow, most likely modifications for other reasons, and those modifications have to go away to balance real life and information systems to make them systems of education. Since a person can not learn with a system that does not have a connected reality across systems, or does not accurately reflect the real world in its form.

Basically, information systems have been proved to be unreal or not reality. I should add the real world was proved to be partially unreal also, so there is that also, but still the information is not properly transfered between the systems. So with that proof, certain changes can be shown with arguement to be needed.

[RoyGBiv]

6. Games ...

Before I performed a self-intervention, I had around 1400 "friends." This was entirely due to a Zynga game. You need at least 500 who are also willing to "friend" you in the game in order to perform optimally, but it doesn't end there. The social nature of the game requires almost constant interaction with others, and as your "friends" drop out of playing, you have to add new ones to replace them. I probably actually had well over 3000 total but ended up with half that through attrition over a year's time. And then it took me forever to delete all the people I didn't actually know after I stopped playing.

It actually doesn't take that long. I got up to around 500 in a week and could go on spurts where I'd add a hundred or so in one sitting. There are tools/tricks to it.

Or ... he could just be one of those people who use it as a status symbol. I know people like that as well. In fact one of my real-world friends who also happens to be an incredible narcissist got really jealous of all my "friends," so much so I never bothered to tell her why I had them. She went on a rampage friending people, inviting people randomly from anywhere she could. It's kinda funny now since she constantly complains about all these whackjobs she's added.

Anyway ...

[Quantess]

8. Oh, games. Of course. Why didn't I think of that?

I know that farmville is a cooperative game.

But, I don't play any games (I hide every application I see) and he still sent me a friend request.

I had kind of assumed he was adding friends to make himself feel popular or look popular. I know it's a positive thing to add a friend, but I imagine it would lose the thrill after the first couple hundred. And then it becomes compulsive.

But maybe you're right, maybe he is just a gamer. Or maybe he's a gamer and a status-seeker. Honestly, having over 1000 friends sounds totally unmanageable.