How Many Friends Do You Have?

by breily on 5/27/2008, 12:27 AM with 4 comments
  • by JacobAldridge on 5/27/2008, 2:20 AM

    163. I speak to 4 of them more than once each month.

    "Is there real, concrete, value in thousands of peripherally connections or is it just another trend — another flash in the pan?"

    I think the key word here is 'connections' - there's only going to be real, concrete value in real, concrete connections - the fact that I have Michael Arrington as a 'Facebook Friend' doesn't mean squat.

    The final question is mine - How many Friends do you Want?

  • by doubleplus on 5/27/2008, 7:30 AM

    "podcasts that chronicles the news of the web" s/b "chronicle"

    "Devorak" s/b "Dvorak"

    This blog is pure filler, yet every entry makes the front page here. The bad poems written by the random 17 year old goth girl I added on livejournal three years ago have more insights than these posts. Is the maintainer a HN member? Someone almost-famous? I don't get it.

  • by rms on 5/27/2008, 2:15 AM

    I have 400 facebook friends, but I can definitely feel that the monkey number is 150...

  • by alohaomega on 5/27/2008, 1:18 AM

    It's definitely changing how we think about friendship. What you use to decide on your friends on socnets might have nothing to do with how you decide on your real friends.