I am currently at 386. I used to be around 490 but people from HS kept unfriending me and it was really hurting my feelings so I got rid of 150 old acquaintances to keep that from happening in the future. I'm kind of embarrassed by my friend count so I keep it hidden on my profile.
In my experience, the more FB friends the more issues. Occasionally you can see what your friends, friends post because of FB's new privacy setting system. It's kind of annoying.
I think the friends:likes ratio tells you more.
I have people who have like 600 friends but their average like count is 20.
Not that it should mean something, but it does.
Friend count doesn't matter at all! And I wouldn't even consider 386 low tbh
I have over 1,000 friends and sometimes I wish I didn't have so many, but I don't have the heart to unfriend them. I do know most of them but occasionally I see people on my news feed who I don't even recognize
If anything a super high friends count makes you seem like more of a "loser" because you actually care about that type of stuff. People who don't have a lot of friends says to me that they only add people they actually know and like, and that they don't care about internet popularity, so they don't seem like losers to me at all
Nobody has more than a handful of TRUE friends in real life.
Anyone who claims otherwise is 100% lying.
Facebook is for your true friends, your other friends, your acquaintances and your family members. If anyone claims to have more than a couple hundred of those in total, they are lying.
Any Facebook friend count above 200 is most definitely filled with people the person does NOT have ANY sort of a relationship with, and it is basically having "Facebook friends" just for the sake of it.
When you start getting into the late hundreds, or into the thousands, that instantly tells me that the person is desperate to be popular, and/or is desperate to appear popular and that is absolutely pathetic. There is absolutely no genuine reason for anyone to have that many (500+) "Facebook friends."
When you see someone with a "friends" count into the late hundreds or into the thousands, that should send off alarm bells for you that this is a person who is obsessed with appearing to be popular, and ask yourself why. It can generally be traced back to the insecurities, and/or can give you an idea about what their priorities in life are. Is there nothing more important to them in life?
Finally, the term "Facebook friend" should absolutely be re-named "Facebook connection,' because they are absolutely not friends.
I would be far more attracted to a person that has 90 FB "friends" than to a person who has "900" FB "friends" because this is a person who doesn't need to be popular and doesn't need to appear popular, for any reason at all. Those are the kinds of people you need in your life. You don't need anyone in your life who is desperate to be popular or who uses their FB "friend" count in order to appear popular. That is just desperate and pathetic. Ironic isn't it?
I'm kind of embarrassed by my friend count so I keep it hidden on my profile.
