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What's worse is when people take pictures of the receipt from a sushi restaurant to show off how much money they blew but they will not post anything negative t

What's worse is when people take pictures of the receipt from a sushi restaurant to show off how much money they blew but they will not post anything negative that happens afterwards. #mercurypoisoining #yolo #expensivesushi I see such people with 500+ even in some cases 1000+ friends on facebook. When talking with them in real life, you can feel that these type of people are social butterflies, placing quantity over quality of relationships. Not placing judgement on this style but when you have so many people on on facebook, it'd be a wonder how one can keep up with all of them, they probably don't. They probably constantly place people in different levels of relationship, far more often than someone with average or little friends on facebook, to filter out the social noise. It's so easy now to make connection with someone you barely knew in university or college. It's suddenly overwhelming when you like someone's post and he/she has never been close to you. A constant battle for likes, as many as possible, from whoever possible. It's like highschool but you interat with each other with a yearbook only in separate rooms. I can't even talk to 500 customers in one week by myself, if it was just through email by email basis with carefully thought out custom messages tailored to each individual written on the spot, it would take forever. 500 people alone is a staggering figure, I just don't know how people keep in contact with all 500 people with all the time. It must be exhausting.

TeMPOraL 12y ago
You sound like someone who's not a Facebook regular ;). Facebook for people like me is a kind of glorified address book. You don't interact with all your 500+ friends all the time. But it helps you keep in touch with various "weak ties"; people who you don't interact with on a daily basis, but you might want to talk to every couple of months. That cool barista from Starbucks you used to chat with before she changed her job. This guy with interesting ideas about technology you met on some conference. A person you used to borrow homework from in your high school. Etc. Think of it as a big party for 500 people who all met each other at least once before. People naturally form small groups and talk within those groups. But every now and then, someone overhears an interesting conversation from the other group, so he might join them for few moments, and sometimes maybe a few groups get together to have a conversation on a common topic. It's how Facebook feels, except "to overhear" means "an interesting post from one of your 'weak ties' somehow ended up in your news feed".

TeMPOraL 12y ago

You sound like someone who's not a Facebook regular ;). Facebook for people like me is a kind of glorified address book. You don't interact with all your 500+ friends all the time. But it helps you keep in touch with various "weak ties"; people who you don't interact with on a daily basis, but you might want to talk to every couple of months. That cool barista from Starbucks you used to chat with before she changed her job. This guy with interesting ideas about technology you met on some conference. A person you used to borrow homework from in your high school. Etc. Think of it as a big party for 500 people who all met each other at least once before. People naturally form small groups and talk within those groups. But every now and then, someone overhears an interesting conversation from the other group, so he might join them for few moments, and sometimes maybe a few groups get together to have a conversation on a common topic. It's how Facebook feels, except "to overhear" means "an interesting post from one of your 'weak ties' somehow ended up in your news feed".