<p>How do you guys go about adding people to facebook? Do you only add people you talk to a lot or what? I see people with like 500+ people, and I know for fact they dont talk to that many people all the time.</p>
<p>I also see freshman who havn't even attended the school with at least 100 now. </p>
<p>What is up? How do you get that many people? </p>
<p>Going out to parties, talking to people in class helps, but just curious how there doing that?</p>
<p>they probably just add random people who have similar interests, are in their major, etc. I know people with THOUSANDS of friends on facebook, and they have most likely met the majority of those people (through friends, big classes, high school, friends of friends, parties, etc), but don't regularly keep in touch with all of them. I have about 250 friends and about 100 of those are people I do actually somewhat keep in touch with (that's about how many I invited to my birthday event) and the rest are acquaintances, random people I've met that were cool but I never got the chance to talk to again, people who lived in my dorm that I talk to occasionally, etc.</p>
<p>If I have a conversation with you about three or four times, then I'll add you eventually.</p>
<p>I'm an incoming first-year and I have about 60 people from my school already but I didn't add a single person myself. I don't really know why they friended me but I guess it's to get to know people before arriving on campus.</p>
<p>Or maybe they think you're hot and wanna stalk you! :)</p>
<p>I just went into the Class of 11 group and added a bunch of people.</p>
<p>^^ I think that's really stupid. Just wait till you get to college and meet people. You probably won't end up meeting 95% of the people you add anyway.</p>
<p>Yeah it makes it really awkward if you meet in person.</p>
<p>^^ Totally agree. Last year before I went to college I added a few random people and when I actually met them it was really awkward and we never ended up talking anyway. Now I'm transferring to a different school and will not make the same mistake.</p>
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<p>Its because you put your picture up and they thought you were good looking. I know that much about facebook. The second I read your post, I looked to see what gender you were (I guessed female before looking), and was right.</p>
<p>^^The only problem with that is my profile pic for the past three months have been of Elmo. You know, the spoof one with the Fox News caption "Elmo captured by insurgents."</p>
<p>Your profile probably wasn't set to private, and they might have seen your pictures anyway.</p>
<p>Well.......your probably still listed as a female, and your other pics might be of you (assuming its not private). How many of the people that added you were males compared to females? I could be wrong, who knows. I just know that a lot of females get high numbers just for the fact of having a pic and being female.</p>
<p>All female...I go to an all-women's college so I'm not a very good representation of the general college female population :P</p>
<p>Also, I initially thought you might have had your profile picture in a swim-suit or something. Then you always get attention lol. I hate it when women do that though. It's plain stupid and immature.</p>
<p>Well, then Im for a loss of explanation. I have other reasons, but no point in listing every reason why it might have happen. Although, hey, some females dig other females ;).</p>
<p>^ hahaha.</p>
<p>Be aware is all I can say. Lots of facebook stalkers out there.</p>
<p>I'm an entering freshman and I have about 300 "friends" at my college. I met about half at orientation, but the other half just added me. I feel bad about rejecting people, plus it would be weird to meet someone and have them say something like, "Hey... I recognize you. You rejected my friend request on facebook." lol... It's interesting... People just say hi and ask what you're majoring in. I guess it makes it a little bit less intimidating, just knowing that people are open and friendly. </p>
<p>In my high school network, I only have about 60 friends, and I talk to all of them regularly. They're actually my friends. lol</p>
<p>I normally would not add anyone I haven't met and had a decent conversation with. The exception has been that I'm part of a facebook group for the incoming class of my school, and have befriended my roomie, about 4 people who will be in my major (which will be a tight-knit community, as it's theatre) and 2 or 3 other people who were open and nice in posting to the group. In general I highly discourage adding people you don't know personally.</p>
<p>I have 92 friends at Oberlin! People think I'm popular because I post a lot on the FB Class of '11 group. Actually it's because I'm online all day and have no life... >.<.</p>