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Re:How Many Friends Do You Have? by JacobAldridge on Monday May 26, 2008 @10:20PM (#200614)
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?

Re:How Many Friends Do You Have? by doubleplus on Tuesday May 27, 2008 @03:30AM (#200766)
"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.

Re:How Many Friends Do You Have? by rms on Monday May 26, 2008 @10:15PM (#200610)
I have 400 facebook friends, but I can definitely feel that the monkey number is 150...
Re:How Many Friends Do You Have? by alohaomega on Monday May 26, 2008 @09:18PM (#200579)
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.