BAViscount From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2004, 2338 posts, RR: 4 Posted (4 years 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 2639 times:
OK, so I was a bit bored tonight and started to think about how I met/know my facebook friends. I don't have a huge number of friends on there (compared to some people I know!), so it was a fairly easy task for me to break them down into categories. I'm curious to see how others compare (percentages not compulsory, neither is using the same categories!)...
I currently have a total of 88 friends, who can be broken down as follows:
Family - 7 (7.95%) From airliners.net - 5 (5.68%) From other websites - 7 (7.95%) Old school friends - 21 (23.86%) Friends that I have worked with - 37 (42.05%) Friends of friends - 4 (4.55%) Random adds - 4 (4.55%) Other friends - 3 (3.41%)
If you're bored too, have a think about yours!!
Ladies & gentlemen this is Captain Tobias Wilcock welcoming you aboard Coconut Airways flight 372 to Bridgetown Barb
AirframeAS From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 14150 posts, RR: 26 Reply 1, posted (4 years 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 2622 times:
Everyone on my FB are only the people I know real well, with exceptions of maybe 1 or 2 people. I just don't add anyone to my FB. I have to really trust certain people before they are added to my FB because I have family AND co-workers on it. I don't tolerate drama, inappropriate stuff or any BS on it.
I recently trashed my MySpace last week. It was no real use to me at all since I am never over there. MySpace......just didn't do it for me.
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Sketty222 From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2006, 1772 posts, RR: 4 Reply 3, posted (4 years 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 2612 times:
I have about 500 friends on there made up of friends from work, colleagues from work(other offices), friends from school, close friends and family and even some friends of friends. Ive got some A.nutters on there as well as well as some people from one of the aviation groups on there as well.
Texan From New Zealand, joined Dec 2003, 4204 posts, RR: 53 Reply 5, posted (4 years 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 2598 times:
All but 28 of the 325 on my list are family, friends for a long time, or friends from school. Of the 28, almost all of them are either professional contacts with whom I occasionally keep in touch or friends or family of other friends who I met and talked with. There are only two people on the list with whom I do not believe I have ever talked (another Aston Villa fan and a student member of the New York State Bar Association).
Texan
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WESTERN737800 From United States of America, joined Feb 2008, 684 posts, RR: 2 Reply 6, posted (4 years 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 2564 times:
I've got 226ish on my FB. I would guess 88% from school, 2% family, and 10% coworkers. Its a good way to catch up and converse about the good old days.
Captaink From Mexico, joined May 2001, 5093 posts, RR: 13 Reply 7, posted (4 years 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 2551 times:
Friends from school, friends from past schools, ex co workers family, friends of friends who have nothing better to do than the add people they dont know but I am worse upon accepting.. HAHA.. but my FB is relatively controlled.. My hi5 wasnt..
MadameConcorde From San Marino, joined Feb 2007, 10243 posts, RR: 40 Reply 10, posted (4 years 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 2486 times:
Quoting IAirAllie (Reply 9): I know all my FB friends. I don't add strangers.
The same here. I know all of my Facebook people. Many aviation buffs among them (Concorde and A380 First to Fly) a number of them living in Singapore. Some QE2 and Cunard Queens buffs as well.
There was a better way to fly it was called Concorde
Doona From Sweden, joined Feb 2005, 3707 posts, RR: 14 Reply 11, posted (4 years 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 2486 times:
I have around 200 friends on FB, all but a few are people I know in real life. Most are university friends, class mates, people from the student radio station, and the next big group I suppose are old friends from high school.
Cheers
Mats
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NZ107 From New Zealand, joined Jul 2005, 5672 posts, RR: 40 Reply 13, posted (4 years 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 2467 times:
Quoting AirframeAS (Reply 1): Everyone on my FB are only the people I know real well, with exceptions of maybe 1 or 2 people. I just don't add anyone to my FB.
Ditto. Means no A.Net members either! I think it's a great communication tool to those friends/relatives you don't necessarily talk to that often.
AirKas1 From Netherlands, joined Dec 2003, 3848 posts, RR: 57 Reply 14, posted (4 years 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 2450 times:
I've got 95 friends on Facebook and it breaks down to:
Family - 10 From airliners.net - 40 People I went to school with - 14 Friends I know from something else - 31 (football/rowing/flight schools/work etc.)
Out of these 95, I have personally met 78 of them.
I don't do much with my facebook account though, I use the Dutch equivalent of it much more often.
Daleaholic From UK - England, joined Oct 2005, 3186 posts, RR: 15 Reply 15, posted (4 years 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 2434 times:
I have 500 or so friends on Facebook, Most I know from school/college and the rest are a.netters, old work colleague's and some other people I know inbetween
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OA260 From Ireland, joined Nov 2006, 24929 posts, RR: 60 Reply 16, posted (4 years 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 2431 times:
I have around 55. Most are old school mates/ A few of my cousins in Greece. Close friends and 1 Anetter . Im very particular who I add and have max security settings on my page.
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CXB77L From Australia, joined Feb 2009, 2197 posts, RR: 4 Reply 17, posted (4 years 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 2427 times:
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29 from secondary school
20 work colleagues
31 from Air Force Cadets
2 from church
1 from primary school
4 relatives
1 from university
8 friends/relatives of friends
2 fellow transplant patients
10 internet forum/facebook friends
BMIFlyer From UK - England, joined Feb 2004, 8810 posts, RR: 62 Reply 18, posted (4 years 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 2425 times:
My facebook friends list is made up of.....
126 people I work with on the railway
88 A.netters (most of whom I have met in real life)
49 Territorial Army buddies (10 of those I served in the Gulf with)
40 'Random' adds, but I personally know 32 of those (mostly friends of friends / drinking buddies etc)
13 friends from my old High School
12 family members
Signol From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2007, 2948 posts, RR: 7 Reply 19, posted (4 years 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 2392 times:
I've got a few friends on Facebook that I met purely because we have the same name... There's a woman in Calgary who started a group for all of us with the same name...
Ajd1992 From UK - England, joined Jul 2006, 2645 posts, RR: 6 Reply 20, posted (4 years 3 days ago) and read 2350 times:
Out of 74 friends, I've met all of them. I don't let people I don't know onto my friends - I have my mobile number and home address on there, so it's kinda a given I don't accept people I don't know
Most are from school or college, some are just friends, and the rest are people I know through other people.
MWHCVT From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2008, 573 posts, RR: 0 Reply 21, posted (4 years 3 days ago) and read 2351 times:
Well thanks to a slow Saturday and the reading of this thread I have got round to reviewing my Facebook friend list and here how it go's
Work 71 Friends
College 9 Friends
Coventry Saracens 20 Friends
Drinking Buddy's 21 Friends
Facebook Poker 17 Friends
Family 35 Friends
School 138 Friends
Must think up a new one soon, slow moving brain trying to get into gear ;)
Jetblueguy22 From United States of America, joined Nov 2007, 2021 posts, RR: 1 Reply 22, posted (4 years 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 2325 times:
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For me most are from school, including grade school. Also I have a few family members and some friends from my People to People trip. I dodged a bullet when my dad got one .
Blue
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Don81603 From Canada, joined Jul 2005, 1185 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (4 years 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 2308 times:
3 Anutters, the rest are close friends and family
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25 WILCO737: Wasn't there an A.netters group? wilco737
26 NZ107: I don't see many members on it.. IIRC there are quite a few of them. But definitely plenty of groups out there which abuse photos from this site!
28 AirframeAS: Yeah, I am in that group. I have not visited the page in some time, though....
29 WILCO737: I was in that group as well. But never actually checked out the page there. As I said: I wasn't hardly ever online at facebook... And I won't come ba
30 OA260: There was another one that I stumbled across and it was by some disgruntled former members. Some interesting reading none the less.
31 Kaneporta1: The breakdown of my Facebook friends is: 1: Guy who organizes basketball games every week and sends email via facebook on where and when. The end.
32 BNE: 140 friends broken down into the following. 20% A.net 20% Flyertalk 6% work 4% school 35% sport/sailing 8% relatives 7% randoms a.net could have been
33 HAWK21M: Whats your defination of Friend? To me a Friend is someone who you can trust & is there at all times [Good/bad]. The rest are just collegues/acquantic
34 Jetblueguy22: Yeah. There is a group created when Paulo died. Blue
35 BNE: While I was compiling my list I wondered: what is the definition of a facebook friend; should it be one that you talk to regularly or someone that yo
36 BAViscount: I think the bigger question is what makes an actual friend rather than what makes a facebook friend. Facebook is generally just a bit of fun and a go
37 A380US: I hav like 650+ friends most from Schools, then camp, then like random across America through friends, and a lil family I would say i actually know 62
38 WESTERN737800: I basically divided my friends into 2 groups. I've got people on my FB that are friends that I see and talk to on a weekly basis. The other group is p
39 Levent: I shut down my Facebook account. It almost destroyed my marriage.
40 HAWK21M: Facebook friend can be someone you contact with,may not have necessary met. regds MEL.
41 Offloaded: 95% are friends, most of those I would say I've known over 20 years and several of whom were real blasts from the past and excellent to be back in tou
42 GQfluffy: Something tells me it wasn't Facebook...
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