How many Facebook friends do you have?

[Kaleva]

I have 78. Mostly relatives, old high school buddies and former shipmates. I'll have to double check but I don't think there's even a half dozen who don't fall into one of the 3 categories.

[TexasProgresive]

1. Zed, zero, nada

[janterry]

3. Me, too

but for me I think it's a mistake. I think it would be better if I kept up with folks more (well, a few folks anyway!).

So, I'm thinking about it.........(sigh)

[Kaleva]

10. It's a great way to communicate during a family crisis

[janterry]

15. I'm going to look for a job, soon

and the last three companies I worked for are either defunct or rebranded. One company had a line - not for a reference - but to Equifax. I couldn't get through to HR. It was awful.

I spent hours tracking folks down. It would have been a lot easier if I kept them in my social circle...........

I'm lucky that they are still out there and working (not retired) and we had a good relationship (friendly). But it reminded me that I need a facebook that's newsy about me and just sort of 'keeps in touch.'

[Mediumsizedhand]

2. Around 40. The sad part is, I mostly do not have family.

I am political on my board. What I say would offend them. I do not care to hear their opinion. The only person I have unfriended was a family member.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. I'm old and have around 250. Some friends, some family, mostly neighbors.

[brewens]

5. 309. Mostly people I know from school. Some co-workers and family. I accept about any friend

request as long as I know who it is. I only ask to be friends if it's someone I actually knew pretty well or did stuff with.

It pretty much takes someone getting nailed for a sex crime (which has happened twice) for me to boot them. Even the most obnoxious right-winger, I let stay. Better to keep an eye on what they throw up on the feed than cut them loose. It can be informative.

[True Dough]

6. I hover around 250, give or take 5

I have "unfollowed" more than half of them. Some pollute my "news feed" with endless memes and jokes and nutty videos, so I don't want to see that. Others post multiple "selfies" every day. Don't need to see that either.

The remainder occasionally post meaningful life updates that are truly of interest to me, or they link to meaningful articles (like you often find as the source of a thread here at the DU) or the odd video that genuinely amuses me. Everything in moderation, right?

[LuckyCharms]

7. I think I have somewhere around 100

but I don't go there anymore, except to lurk. I never contribute.

[RKP5637]

8. 0 n/t

[Iggo]

9. Zero!

[Ernesto]

17. Works for me!..................n-a

[Ernesto]

18. Works for ME!

[samnsara]

11. dont know dont care... i actually have even blocked my sister...

...and a whole lot of childhood friends (Im 67 and still have friends I grew up with). My sole purpose on FB is to post anti trump stuff and dog stuff. I don't ever go back and read any comments. My goal is to have all of my trump friends block me.

[LuckyCharms]

36. LOL I blocked my sister too. n/t

[Croney]

12. I have 48.

All relatives except for maybe 5 friends, and the 48 includes two children and a cat who have their own pages, and two relatives who have a second page for no good reason.

I post this once a year: Most of you reading this would not exist if I had not married a Cuban refugee in 1963.

(Just a warning not to post any right-wing bullshit where I can read it.)

[cyclonefence]

13. What is this thing you call "Facebook?"

[jodymarie aimee]

22. bravo

don't go near it and don't own a cellphone....we stopped a war in Berkeley 1970 without these things....

[msongs]

14. people I either actually know in the real world or who are well known to people

I actually know. ignore unsolicited friend requests. and my business page is not cross referenced with my personal page. never click on an ad or "sponsored link"

[ADX]

16. ZERO...

...Fuck Facebook and it's data-mining designs on world dominance.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

19. None

Never registered an account. Never used it. Never visited a Facebook page.

[JonLP24]

20. Nobody anymore

I haven't logged in well over a year and a half. I stick with Twitter but it is hard to find people only the ones with the famous blue checkmark.

[cloudbase]

21. None.

You might say I'm a no account.

[lunamagica]

23. 2. But I don't Facebook anymore, and when I did I didn't do it too much

I have a niece who has 800+ Facebook friends, and a cousin who has over a thousand...it's mind-blowing. There's no way either one of them even know half that many people, yet they share... well the cousin shares a great number of intimate details of her life with them

[Kaleva]

24. It's been many months since I've posted anything about myself

[Madam Mossfern]

25. I don't know

Honest - I figure about a couple dozen, family and high school people (from 50 years ago!)
I'll go check...

[doc03]

26. Zero and now that the news comes out about the Russians

planting fake news on Facebook I will be sure to never go there in the future either.

[northoftheborder]

27. Zero now, zero then.

[becca da bakkah]

28. I Had ONE.....

....my ex SIL. We lost contact after her brother, my son's father, died, back in 1979. Then we got back in touch, until I read her hateful posts about Obama. Really stupid, vile stuff. She even listed Rush as a "fav". NO! Oh hell NO!

I blocked her and haven't been tempted to communicate anymore. Luckily, she lives in TN and I'm in CA. Mostly now I just use FB to keep up on what my nieces/nephews/family are doing.

Really frustrating to try to find old boyfriends...the ones who are still living. Especially when several with the same name pops up. How can I lurk on your FB page when I don't know which one you are!?

[left-of-center2012]

29. 1,055

Not one of my right wing, evangelical siblings

[catbyte]

30. 291, mostly elephant & cetacean activist friends from Thailand, India, Africa & Japan

I thought about ditching Facebook, but it's the best, cheapest way for us to keep in touch. I figure I watch mainstream media, & they were just as complicit, & I would really miss my friends.

[LeftInTX]

31. 120 - most are Democratic activists

About 20 of them are family and friends

FB has been great for our resistance. We plan everything on FB. For instance, I can't decide on Thursday whether to go to Precinct Chair training or an event with our City Council member. Don't even get me started on Saturday morning. There are about 5 local Democratic Party functions that are pulling me in many different directions. I love the event thing, it is like a calendar.

[OriginalGeek]

32. Around 262

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2 from Jr high, many from high school and the most of the rest are bands I follow and people I know from shows I go to. Not many from work as that is just dangerous. There's a few family but they are mostly all of an Accord with my politics so that's no problem. My brother isn't but he a doperson and I pick on him fir his ridiculous views that I firmly believe he champions just to be
funny.

wow ^^^ - phone typing is is detrimental to the appearance of my competency

[sakabatou]

33. 58

[Blue_Adept]

34. Around 450 or so

Lots of friends from around the world met through shared interests that I used to be able to get together with more, but we've all gotten older from our time in our twenties and now have families and such, so it's a great way to keep in touch.

[Orrex]

35. Somewhere around 2000, with about 1,900 from Macedonia

They all have remarkably pretty profile pics though, so I'm sure they're legit.

[OriginalGeek]

37. I get tons of friend requests from nice Russian ladies

but my wife won't let me accept them. :/ I guess she just doesn't care if the US and Russia have good relations.

[Orrex]

38. Curse her and her rejection of diplomacy!

Why does she hate glasnost?

[steve2470]

43. lol

I am sure all the ladies have only the best diplomatic relations in mind.

[mnhtnbb]

39. 157 at the moment.

Some are family, some are high school friends. Others are friends acquired through the years living from coast to coast
and traveling. Some are DU'ers who are also on fb.

I have defriended a bunch of people who expressed support of Trump either before or after the election. Some Trump supporting
family are still "friends" but I don't follow them.

I mostly stay on fb because it's easier to keep up with family and real friends that way. I enjoy hearing about their travels
and their lives and their kids.

I do some politics--commenting on posts--on fb, but mostly I avoid it.

[Sentath]

40. dkdc

I'm only on it because it is the only way to see some relative's photos.

[demmiblue]

41. None. n/t

[steve2470]

42. a few ? I'm not much of a FB'er nt