darkhorse23: Rik01: See also how many would suddenly stop contacting you.

You obviously have missed out on how many Farkers have been helped out of bad situations by other Farkers doing drives for money and helping hands. It's amazing.

I have 700 people on my FB friends list. 150 are people I know IRL - friends and family. The rest are Farkers, many of which I also know IRL, some for nearly 10 years now.

it's how you interact, not how many you know. I have a couch to crash on in nearly every city I would want to visit, because of my Fark friends. It is what you make of it.

I really live up to the no friend/loser stereotype on fark, I've been on fark longer than you and I don't know a single farker, online or in real life.

darkhorse23: You obviously have missed out on how many Farkers have been helped out of bad situations by other Farkers doing drives for money and helping hands. It's amazing.

90% of them are people vote whoring for some online contest.

F*ck that, nobody gets close to me.

/that's how you get stabbed

Two?

If you're lucky...


As for FB? I limited the number of friends to 60.

I regularly get posts from 5.

This is sad.

I blame foot odor.

And one of those pals is secretly sleeping with your girlfriend, and the other just likes you because you get good drugs.

i'm a friendly whore

i have over 400 fb 'friends'

most of whom i actually communicate with and all of whom i always wish a happy birthday

i guess there are about a dozen deadwood on there I should axe but i got the lazy

Having many Facebook friends is like bragging about your peener. Everyone knows that it's actually smaller than you claim.

That this even merited a study indicates how far off-kilter the world has become.

Society has somehow blended the concept of "friends" and "acquaintances." A true friend is a treasure; an aquaintance is someone you talk to in the elevator on the way to work. Never confuse the two. They are not the same thing. They will never be the same thing.

as you get older it just gets more and more difficult. I had like 5 really close friends in college, and then you graduate and move to big city, and then you develop maybe like 2 or 3 really close friends, then you break up with your girlfriend, and don't really see some people anymore including the puppy you helped raise that stayed with the x, and you have maybe one ok friend. fml.

So, I'm way ahead of the curve, in that I have zero close friends? Sweet.

"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them". Jodi Picoult

I have one person I consider a friend. I'd trust him to help me bury bodies.

OregonVet: Perhaps it's trending that way. IDK. There's five of us, not including my wife, that I regard as "close". The term is somewhat ambiguous. I mean what is "close"? Some of my friends I trust implicitly.

Facebook Friend: Someone that if I saw them trying to change a tire, I'd stop and help.
Friend: Someone that if I saw them trying to change a tire in the rain, I'd stop and help.
Real Friend: Someone who I would let bury a body under my crawl space if theirs was full up.

I'd like to see a study that examined the amount of friends people on fark who post on Saturday nights have verses the rest of the population.

You don't say

ManateeGag: Obvious tag out getting drunk because he's so lonely?

Over in one.

I didn't bother with modern social networking. Between BBS message bases, then Fidonet, then Usenet, then listservs, then web forums, I've learned that these are great to talk at others, but not necessarily great to talk with others. Also, people on these various electronic means of communication aren't likely to help you move or otherwise need actual help, not just disconnected advice.

How is this either a surprise or a bad thing?

beanx: reveal101: darkhorse23: Rik01: See also how many would suddenly stop contacting you.

You obviously have missed out on how many Farkers have been helped out of bad situations by other Farkers doing drives for money and helping hands. It's amazing.

I have 700 people on my FB friends list. 150 are people I know IRL - friends and family. The rest are Farkers, many of which I also know IRL, some for nearly 10 years now.

it's how you interact, not how many you know. I have a couch to crash on in nearly every city I would want to visit, because of my Fark friends. It is what you make of it.

I really live up to the no friend/loser stereotype on fark, I've been on fark longer than you and I don't know a single farker, online or in real life.

i've now faved you, "loner like me". p.s. i love canadians.

girl. old. bostonian. so ha! now you have a fark friend. or whatever....

It took almost ten years but I finally have a fark friend!

Can I borrow $20?

depmode98: as you get older it just gets more and more difficult. I had like 5 really close friends in college, and then you graduate and move to big city, and then you develop maybe like 2 or 3 really close friends, then you break up with your girlfriend, and don't really see some people anymore including the puppy you helped raise that stayed with the x, and you have maybe one ok friend. fml.


Cities are full of people. Terrible places to meet friends.


"Sometimes I live in the country
Sometimes I live in the town..."

ManateeGag: Obvious tag out getting drunk because he's so lonely?

More like "in" getting drunk

gibbon1: OregonVet: Perhaps it's trending that way. IDK. There's five of us, not including my wife, that I regard as "close". The term is somewhat ambiguous. I mean what is "close"? Some of my friends I trust implicitly.

Facebook Friend: Someone that if I saw them trying to change a tire, I'd stop and help.
Friend: Someone that if I saw them trying to change a tire in the rain, I'd stop and help.
Real Friend: Someone who I would let bury a body under my crawl space if theirs was full up.

Man, that's sad. Maybe it's because I'm a Southerner but total strangers fall in that first category, and women and the elderly fall into the second.

If I even recognize who you are, I'll stop and help you change a tire while running late for work.

I have 700 friends on facebook but I only know 150 of them in real life.

I have a couch to crash on in nearly every city I would want to visit, because of my Fark friends. It is what you make of it.

Translation:
I friend lots of hot women online thinking I have a chance with them but we never talk, and I've gone to enough Fark parties and drank with enough other alcoholics to find a few couches to crash on but I'm still so horribly lonely! (tear forms) look at me i'm the life of the party everyone wants to be my friend!

/loser
//morons require company to vindicate their existence
.i f*cking hate people like you, requiring farking attention all the time

urban.derelict: I have 700 friends on facebook but I only know 150 of them in real life.

I have a couch to crash on in nearly every city I would want to visit, because of my Fark friends. It is what you make of it.

Translation:
I friend lots of hot women online thinking I have a chance with them but we never talk, and I've gone to enough Fark parties and drank with enough other alcoholics to find a few couches to crash on but I'm still so horribly lonely! (tear forms) look at me i'm the life of the party everyone wants to be my friend!

/loser
//morons require company to vindicate their existence
.i f*cking hate people like you, requiring farking attention all the time

I hate people like you, hating people like him all the time.

A few close friends is good enough for me.

As for those who support you when sick, I'd like to see what that support is like OUTSIDE of the online fanfare and fame people relish after they've helped out someone in the public eye.

Real friends are there and help with zero "look I give a shiat too" attitude.
I am not saying there are not times when the needs arise for this request of assistance in someones life. But it is a very good determination of what a REAL friend is vs someone who just has empathy/sympathy at best or needs to be apart of the look at me group at worst.

Having a friend is a choice, something not forced upon you (thinking government here)
A friend is more involved in ones personal matters then the public.
Not nearly as much as a spouse or partner however, otherwise you could be playing with fire.
Parents and relatives are just for guidance and fallback if the need may arise.
Celebrations and success is shared between all of these people in different ways depending on which group they belong in.

I've always held the belief that anyone who has more than a few close friends is nothing more than a manipulative individual looking for some sort of personal relief through others.

Take your pick, emotional, financial, sexual, building a support army for x,y,z purpose etc. In this day and age of media, we promote the people who exploit relationships to their max. Usually at the expense of someone else s suffering or hard work. That behavior shows a huge lack of respect toward individuals. This has to stop. At least on a personal level and hopefully on a mass sense of appreciation level.

Maybe then, we'd have some sanity back in our daily lives and interactions with those who we think or believe are close to us. Maybe the main stream media will finally get its head out of its ass because no one is paying attention anymore to non sense garbage that they've been clogging the airwaves with for well over a decade now. Maybe parents will get that piece of shait TV out of their house and interact with and monitor their children like caring, nurturing parents should.

/I am a parent who grew up with Rock n Roll and TV in the house.
//Kept the appreciation of music in the family, tossed the TV and I monitor the internet.
///It is really simple to do, Folks)

Saving that money and living drama free with respect and integrity is the way to be. my 2 cents.

Rik01: Tell you what. Get really sick and need money and see how many of those 600 friends would contribute and how many would give more than $5.00.

Ask every one of your FB friends to help you move. You'll find out real fast who your *real* friends are.


Omahawg: i'm a friendly whore

i have over 400 fb 'friends'

Never understood this. There's no way the average human brain can keep all the interrelations straight with anything over @ 150 people.

Dunbar's Number (new window)

tereklusec: urban.derelict: Translation:
I friend lots of hot women online thinking I have a chance with them but we never talk, and I've gone to enough Fark parties and drank with enough other alcoholics to find a few couches to crash on but I'm still so horribly lonely! (tear forms) look at me i'm the life of the party everyone wants to be my friend!
/loser
//morons require company to vindicate their existence
.i f*cking hate people like you, requiring farking attention all the time
I hate people like you, hating people like him all the time.

You're both so totally wrong. Darkhorse is a woman.

I have no facebook friends. Because I already know who my friends are.

darkhorse23: Rik01: See also how many would suddenly stop contacting you.

You obviously have missed out on how many Farkers have been helped out of bad situations by other Farkers doing drives for money and helping hands. It's amazing.

I have 700 people on my FB friends list. 150 are people I know IRL - friends and family. The rest are Farkers, many of which I also know IRL, some for nearly 10 years now.

it's how you interact, not how many you know. I have a couch to crash on in nearly every city I would want to visit, because of my Fark friends. It is what you make of it.


Hey, you can add me to the list of Fark friends with welcoming couches, bro! And I'll throw in dinner to boot!


_{/As an aside, do you happen to know what Rohypnol tastes like?}

I've unfriended about 10 people and I have 281 friends, 70 of them are classmates.

I unfriend people I don't talk and who continually post to their walls shiat about how their cat threw up or how much they love working at Apple or how they only had enough coffee-mate to make 1 cup of coffee.

Look, I get it if you constantly post funny stuff your fb wall but it's not a substitute for Twitter.

urban.derelict: Translation:
I friend lots of hot women online thinking I have a chance with them but we never talk, and I've gone to enough Fark parties and drank with enough other alcoholics to find a few couches to crash on but I'm still so horribly lonely! (tear forms) look at me i'm the life of the party everyone wants to be my friend!

Heh.

If you knew anything about the person you were talking about you would laugh too.

Amos Quito: depmode98: as you get older it just gets more and more difficult. I had like 5 really close friends in college, and then you graduate and move to big city, and then you develop maybe like 2 or 3 really close friends, then you break up with your girlfriend, and don't really see some people anymore including the puppy you helped raise that stayed with the x, and you have maybe one ok friend. fml.


Cities are full of people. Terrible places to meet friends.


"Sometimes I live in the country
Sometimes I live in the town..."

sometimes i take the fool notion
to jump in the river and go swimming
except it's full of sioux city poop here

beanx:

girl. old. bostonian. so ha! now you have a fark friend. or whatever....

what part of Boston? Backbay here.

Bonus points for spelling "facebook" as it appears on the site

reveal101: darkhorse23: Rik01: See also how many would suddenly stop contacting you.

You obviously have missed out on how many Farkers have been helped out of bad situations by other Farkers doing drives for money and helping hands. It's amazing.

I have 700 people on my FB friends list. 150 are people I know IRL - friends and family. The rest are Farkers, many of which I also know IRL, some for nearly 10 years now.

it's how you interact, not how many you know. I have a couch to crash on in nearly every city I would want to visit, because of my Fark friends. It is what you make of it.

I really live up to the no friend/loser stereotype on fark, I've been on fark longer than you and I don't know a single farker, online or in real life.

I've never met a farker IRL either, and I have precisely one farker friend on FB.

You don't really even know haw many friends you have until you go through some severe adversity. You probably have fewer than you think.