Most people I know have had a facebook account through high school and university. You meet a lot of people in that process. A few years ago adding everyone you

Most people I know have had a facebook account through high school and university. You meet a lot of people in that process. A few years ago adding everyone you vaguely knew was fairly vogue, and so friend lists build up. I'd say that most people I know just leaving university have around 500-600 friends. Younger people who got facebook earlier in high school tend to have more. It takes a lot more effort to remove friends than it does to add them, and so they build up. friends used in the facebook sense. I certainly wouldn't consider most of my facebook contacts to be more than acquaintances.