Are more friends always better on Facebook?
Facebook has become the most popular social network of the 20th century. It has the highest growth rate having added 100 million users in less than 9 months! It has become obvious: social media and specifically Facebook is not just a fad, it is the interaction form of the future.
Friends and fans
You can have a maximum of 5000 friends on your personal page. If you want to build a larger number of followers, you may want to create a (business) page. On this type of page, both your friends and anyone else can click the “Like” button. You don’t have to personally approve them and anyone interested can follow their content on the page.
More or less friends?
How many friends you can want depends on what you are trying to achieve with your Facebook presence. On your personal profile page, you want to consider your privacy settings as to who can see your information. If you are using your personal profile strictly in a personal capacity, you may want to keep the number of friends low and limited to people you really know. If you use your personal profile to improve your business, you will be more likely to have more friends.
Approve friends
When approving friends, ask yourself: Do I agree with this person seeing all of my personal status updates? That is the first and foremost question as otherwise you will have to exclude certain people from certain updates and it becomes quite complicated to freely add content to your page. The next question depends on your usage (as mentioned above): If you use it strictly for personal reasons, you may only approve of people you really know, be it in real life or through other channels. However, if you use your page for other reasons or to improve your business, you may be approved by a greater number of people or anyone who asks you to be friends.
Find friends
“People you may know” is the tool that matches people with your profile based on the common people that you and your friends know. You can easily add people from there and they will get a request to approve you as their friend. You may have already received such requests; you can easily find them next to the Facebook logo on your page and the symbol shows the outlines of two heads. If you have friends waiting to be approved, there will be a number next to the symbol that indicates how many are waiting.
The meaning of the number of friends.
If you find people who have many friends (more than 1000), it indicates that they approve of people they may not know personally. Their goal is to get their status updates to as many interested people as possible. It’s rare that people personally know 500 other Facebook users. It is important to remember that the more friends you have, the more new status updates you will find on your home page and also potentially things that are not of your real interest. Browsing this will take time.
Conclution:
Having more friends is not always better. As in real life, the quality of friends exceeds the quantity.