How many FACEBOOK friends do YOU have? And How did you get them?

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Hello All.....

When it comes to Facebook, I guess I'm late to the party. I just signed up to Facebook recently and really like it. It seems like such a fun and effective way to keep in contact with others.

I have two questions:

1. How many Facebook friends do you currently have?

2. What are the better techniques and strategies for adding new Facebook friends?


I know that you can hire a compay to add friends to your Facebook account. But I'm not looking at that. I want to have REAL friends. Quality friends.

So far, I have just added my Facebook link to my profile and placed a little blurb in my signature file to "be my Facebook friend."

But there's got to be better ways of doing this.

Any ideas?


#main internet marketing discussion forum #facebook #friends
  • Not many.

    Remember, though, it's the "quality" of those friendships that count, rather than the volume. There are several people I know who have tens of thousands of friends, yet, they are lucky if they are able to provide any substantial value/market effectively to even a small handful of them. So, quality over quantity any day.
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    • I totally agree. Quality over quantity.

      JoeMack
    • Hey, you may want to look at your Facebook link. When I click on the icon, it takes me to a "page not found" error.

      I had this same problem until I assigned a username to my account (instead of the numeric code they provide you).

      Would you mind if I sent you a friend request? I remember reading some decent posts by you last year about revenue sharing opportunities.

      JoeMack

    • I agree,,me too have only some few friends on fb,,I've rather to add those who are important and have sense..Because If u add and add u might forgot sometimes the most important people or friends of yours..Thanks
  • 1. I have 500 friends
    2. I only add people I know in real life, but you can go to groups of your interests and add people.
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    • 500? Sounds good. On long have you had your Facebook account?

      What "groups" are you referring to?

      JoeMack
  • I have about 700. Most are my friends and some are people i know personally but are not too close. Just surf and add people you know.
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    • Surf on Facebook or on the internet in general?

      JoeMack
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  • Hiya, I have 4600 friends on Facebook. Yes, I know that is probably "way" too many. However, I tend to target people who have the same interests as me. Most people of course, you are never going to speak too face to face.

    I have been of Facebook about a year, I now add friends rarely, the ones I do, I send each one a note, telling them a little bit about myself.

    I have some great marketing friends, lots from this forum - on there, plus I have many contacts from Facebook, that not only buy my affiliate products, but also do JV's with me.

    It's also good for business, if you have a popular fan page - this gives you a great chance to increase the subscribers to your list..

    Keith

    When you get a lot of friends, people tend to want to request "your friendship" more, so you don't have to keep adding friends personally.
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    • Thanks for the info. Just sent you a friend request. Hope that's cool.

      JoeMack
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    • I have a few hundreds friend on facebook! But yeah,some of my friends had collects huge friends using a sexy profile picture! That's true!
    • Why Keith your facebooklist is unreal. Wow, you have really been networking.
  • I have just under 1000 friends. About 200 of those are people I know in "real life" - family, colleagues, etc. About another 50 are people I have interacted with on shared-interest forums.

    The remainder are friends that I have specifically added to play games. This is very easy to do as there are hundreds of sites dedicated to adding people for particular games. However, it's difficult to monetize these people unless you have an offer that is specifically gaming-related.

    Tip: when dealing with large groups of friends, use the Facebook friends lists option. I have about 20 lists made up of "Family", "Real friends", "colleagues", "ex-colleagues", "art friends", "mafia wars", "farmville", etc. You can also use the customize privacy option when you post a status update so you're not spamming your work colleagues with Farmville requests, or informing your gaming friends that your child just vomited all over you...
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    • Great tip about breaking up the friends into groups. Can you really control which groups see specific Wall posts?

      JoeMack
  • I have my personal profile which is only about 300 friends - these are real people whom I actually know.

    Then I have an alias profile for one of my niches which is now just under the maximum 5,000 mark. In that niche I also have a couple of fan pages of about 20,000 total fans. If you want to do it properly and have responsive fans then it takes a little time but well worth the effort. That's over 20,000 people in that niche I now have the potential to reach and it keeps growing day by day.
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  • I guess about 100 or so. Most all of them are from my high school, and naturally I have a few friends and co-workers from the past. I also have a few from our church. I do NOT grant friend status to people that I do not know.
  • I got 200. And I know all of them in my real life.
  • My personal profile is about 600, but they are very targeted on my niche. I don't spend much time with facebook profile to be frank. It's better to socially market through fanpage instead of your profile which is limited to below 5000 folks. I might start a fanpage with 50,000's fans to market my product/service which better....I don't mean have 5000 targeted friends is useless, I just wish to add some ideas about social marketing with facebook...
    Thanks, Amoor
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    • I'm confused. What's a "fan page"?

      JoeMack
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  • I must admit that I have several Facebook accounts and I use them for marketing purposes. I probably have round 5,000 total friends.

    If you ask me how I did it, I use a very simple strategy. Put a picture of a hot girl and join as many Fan page and Group as possible. Yes, that simple.
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    • I can definitely see how that would be effective.

      JoeMack
    • I agree, this has to be the great technique, although, I didn`t try it but it has to be..


      Back to topic. I don`t have many friends. 303 exactly but those are all people I know..
  • Well, i don't think its possible to add 100's of friends in a short period of time without spamming the network, which is not my cup of tea. i have only a handful of friends most of them are from either college or work and some of them are my relatives and family friends. i don't have a separate account for the sake of getting hits and building lists and all that stuff. i think their are better alternative available for those and i don't really want to include a social network in my arsenal for the same
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  • I only have one Facebook account for personal use.

    I have around 500 friends and have met all of them at some point in time during my life.
  • I have little over 100 Facebook friends, but I only know half of them in real life. I just mess around on Facebook and I never used it as a business medium, although I should really look into that.
  • I will probably get burned for posing some of the following questions but after reviewing some of the answers in this thread I have to ask:

    1) This is a business forum and most of the posts I have read here refer to "personal" facebook exposure and the numbers of friends added to your account, but I have yet to see any actual dollar figures of what you have earned from all of these 'friend' building efforts? Anyone??

    2) Here is a link to a recent blog post on the Wall Street Journal that helped to convince me to not bother with facebook for my online business efforts:

    Selling Via Facebook Benefits Few, Study Finds - In Charge - WSJ

    While some businesses 'may' benefit from facebook exposure, my particular business model would most likely see little if any benefit from what appears to be a lot of tedious work with little or any ROI.

    I do not make this post in an effort to get burned but simply to ask someone who has actually achieved quantifiable results ($$$) from their facebook efforts?
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    • I have about 400 fans on my page which came from my friends and adverts on facebook itself.
      i know there is many sites like twiends you can get the dans, but is they are wothless in a long run. If i promote something, i want few percent to convert, don't we all?
    • Well the thread title asked how many friends "YOU" have which leads me to believe the question is referring to my personal FaceBook account..
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    • I'm not going to burn you, buddy. The reason I started a Facebook account was to network with like-minded individuals. And when I say "like-minded", I don't mean that we all like basket waeving.

      I want to network with individuals that have a desire to make a full-time living online.

      These are my people, as the saying goes.

      IMers are a different breed, especially those that have been successfully making money for a while.

      In my real life, I don't know many other IMers. And my friends and family question my sanity at times (until they see me happy and driving around in my BMW). I get the impression that they think I make my money doing something illegal. They can't grasp the concept that you can ACTUALLY make money by sitting in front of your computer and doing certain "things."

      The Warrior Forum is a great place. But I want to know my fellow Warriors in a more direct/personal level.

      That being said, business and making money is TOP PRIORITY for me.

      If that sounds like you too, click on my Facebook icon to your left. We need to be friends.

      JoeMack
  • I have 223, and they are all people I personally know. I mainly use FaceBook to keep in touch with friends from the Army because we are all spread out across the globe.
  • I have around 400+ friends in Facebook...I just add them manually.
  • i have like 150 friends and its to much !!!
  • I have 40, and I know every single one and see most of them at least once a year.

    Linked in, well thats different. Never met most of the people Im linked to on there, but it gets stuff done, money wise.
  • I have around 500 or so friends, and honestly it's not about how many friends you have, it's about how many fans you have on your fan or group page. Having a lot of friends will help your fan page though.
  • We have over 100,000 facebook friends all built over a period of 6 months spread out over 30 accounts.

    ALL quality friends. And when we need something done (i.e. voting, liking etc...) it gets done because we built quality relationships.

    How did we do this?

    Quite simple.

    Join about 100 or so facebook game groups (i.e. farmville, cityville, mafia wars etc) and post that you are looking to ADD NEIGHBORS and also tell them that you gift back daily.

    You then get a gift bot (like GiftAuto) that processes all of your facebook gifts. Your new friends are happy and they recommend you to their friends as you are a proven daily gift giver.

    The art of IM is giving your friends/customers something for free that is of value to them. Word gets out and when you have scratched their back, they will scratch yours...
  • 518 on my profile. I try to keep Facebook Friends personal. They're either friends, or friends of friends who I may cross paths with at some point.

    My website's Facebook page however, has 7,418 likes. Strategy? Deliver good website content!
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    • I have 267 friends (all people I know except maybe 5 or so). I remember Ed Dale saying your facebook friends is for people who are REALLY your friends. Some old friends found me just by googling my name, and the #1 site was my facebook profile.

      Google your real friends. Then when you're done, you can search for them.
  • I currently have 237. Most of which found me through my blog.

    Now that I haven't updated my blog in almost a year, I don't get many anymore.
  • I have about 120 friends on Facebook. They are all people that I personally know. I am thinking of starting another Facebook account for business, though.
  • NO NEED TO BRAG I HAVE OVER 14,000 FACEBOOK FANS..GETTING IT WAS HARD WORK
  • My personal has account has a bit under 300.

    To stop annoying people I really know with Game Requests I made a separate account just for that. That account now has 797 Friends. I need to segment it since it's only real target is Facebook gamers. At least here I know I'm in the demographic I'm targeting for offers :p
  • Hey Guys.....

    The Facebook account I started today is NOT for personal friends and family. I made it specifically for Warriors.

    I'm hoping that it can be a place to share ideas, strategies, and success stories, as opposed to just a place to find buyers. I mean, I do sell products. But my main point with this Facebook account is to network with IMers (especially Warriors).

    JoeMack
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    • Hey Joe, I think you might have chosen the wrong social network to pursue the given purposes.

      Facebook was initially created by this geeky guy Mark so that people could connect with their friends and relatives. This platform is ideal for sharing pictures and sending messages to each other. People are initially looking for communications with who they know in real life and they are also looking for some procrastination maybe

      I must say that Facebook is pretty "personal" thing. I love when my former classmates send me messages or contact me in chat. But when former clients do that - I get irritated

      In case you need to network (build business relationships) - there's a much better platform - LinkedIn. This is where professionals are communicating, sharing their ideas and headhunting.

      The other platform that is really cool to connect with people that interest you is Twitter. And I think it's the one you're looking for.
      It's ideal for sharing ideas, thoughts and strategies and that is actually what most people use it for.

      So my suggestion would be to forget about Facebook and shift to Twitter instead
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    On my main Facebook account, I have hundreds of friends but all are real people I know in the real world. And I don't do any marketing with that account and on Facebook at all. But if I had to, I'd open a new account and add other new people and do my marketing there.
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    • It's the daisy chain effect; I added about a thousand friends in a week or two.

      Of those friends, about 250 are personal friends, the others are all "networking" friends in the same profession. I divide them into groups and don't follow the network friends.

      And that's how you add them fast - find that one person with several thousands of friends and then hit up each of them. They see the "friend in common" thing and you're in. The more friends you have, the more people want to be your friend.

      And let's face it, when you cross that 200 friend mark - most likely the other person is not really a personal friend, and that person will not take time to see who you are; they'll just add you.

      I'm sure I could take the friends up to the max of 5K...just don't see a need for it yet.

      Don't play games, don't run ANY applications, never, ever log in from another site using your FB login, never like a page from an outside site (ok to do within FB), run the https version and make sure you have a separate, dedicated FB email addy and strong FB password and you will never have any problems on FB.
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  • I've got about 1500 friends on a separate Facebook account that I set up to see how effective it was for marketing. I started out going through groups/interests that were related to what I wanted to promote. As alluded to in earlier posts, I've no longer had to do that as the friend requests come in on their own.
  • Currently i have more than 600 hundred real friends at Facebook. Usually, i don't add those of course i do not know. I am very thankful with Facebook because it helps me found my long lost friend.
  • The maximum.

    It's easy to get Facebook friends. Simply join game lists, ie Mafia Wars and Farmville.

    Facebook likes and such are different.

    Use Twiends and similar types of sites. Increasr is one.



  • I gained a ton because of MafiaWars now I am going through removing them. Like the game but having that many friends makes it hard to follow the 150 or so real friends and family kind of defeating my purpose for facebook
  • OK guy, sounds great chance to add fans from here.

    PLEASE ADD ME.....
    facebook.com/amoooorlin

    Thanks
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    • Sweet! Just sent you a Friend Request.

      JoeMack
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  • Ok....

    New question:

    What would be the most effective way of adding Warriors to your Facebook friends list?

    I don't want to reak any rules or anything. I have learned the most about IM just from chatting with Warriors. Not to mention the increase in confidence. When you see others doing it, it makes it more believable that you can do it to.

    How about this idea: starting a WSO and giving the product away free to those that send you friend requests. That would work, right?

    JoeMack
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    • Yes, offering it for free as an WSO would be a good way to get Warrior friends, I think.
  • i have just under 1000 friends i think. probably about 600 of them are people I actually know.

    i used to play farmville and some of the other zynga games and people friend requested me every day. adding people through the zynga games, especially farmville is a quick way to get friends.
  • ps i should mention you obviously don't have to actually PLAY the games and I would suggest NOT playing them. addictive and a total waste of time.

    i had both physical and emotional symptoms of withdrawal when i finally DID stop playing farmville. i had heard that about WoW and other MMORPG but i never thought it would happen to me... and with a silly farming game. who'du'thunk'it?
  • Hi Cosmo....

    I don't think that anyone was implying that you HAD to be on Facebook to be successful. For many people (possibly yourself), there is no need or desire to be part of it. And that's perfectly fine.

    We all have friends "offline." I do. Everyone else does as well. If you have so much negativity toward Facebook, no one is saying that you should be a part of it.

    That being said, I generate my income online. All of it. Most of my customers I have NEVER seen, nor will I ever see them. Even the friendships I have made on the Warrior Forum. I have not met a SINGLE one of them in "real" life. But they are still my friends. They still add value to my life.

    Trust me, I have a bittersweet reelationship with Facebook already. My goal was not to try and "get the most friends." My goals was to quickly network with people who were similar to me. Isn't that what we all want in the end? To share our time with people we like, people who like us, people who liked communicating with us.

    JoeMack
  • I have just shy of 400 friends and I got most of my friends by adding people I know and sending messages to members of facebook groups. I add the people that are suggested on the right when we have 10 or more friends in common or it looks like based on the friends we have in common we might run into each other sometime in the near future. I most admit I have accepted requests from about 50 people that are "internet marketers" that do the type of marketing we do on the forum but 20 of the might also be "internet marketers" that wanted me to join their downlines in the network marketing opportunities. I like seeing how they market their businesses because it helps me come up with ideas to incorporate into mine.

    i would not pay a company to add friends on facebook because it is way too easy to add people you don't know or will probably never meet for free.
  • I'll be your friend.
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  • I actually don't pay attention to numbers of friends...you are maxed at 5,000 anyhow. I build facebook pages that people can like (unlimited numbers) You can have a fan page for yourself...much better than a personal profile because once you get to 5,000 you won't be able to do anything else. Just a thought.
  • I have 84 facebook friends. People who I went to school with, am friends with, family and some people who I've met at live events and become friends with, a few of my top JV Partners who are also friends.
  • Facebook are getting a little strict with how you add friends, it now pops up a message every now and then that you must really know the person before adding them
  • Start playing the games on FB like mafia wars or others and you will get as many friends as you want...this is my simple strategy to get friends that are real traffic as well.
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    • I'm sure that this strategy (playing FB games) is a great way to add Friends. However, I don't think I want to go this route.

      I want most of my frinds to be IMers, Warriors, etc. People that have a passion (or at least an interest) in making money thru online efforts/

      People like me.

      JoeMack
  • I still don't "get" facebook, so if you have hundreds of "friends" who has time for that?! How in the world do you keep up? I can't even keep up with my emails and my daily routine going to work, etc. Plus I don't know if I would really want to get involved wih high school again since I lost touch and don't know them anymore. What am I missing?
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    • Hi...

      I don't think that abyone could keep up with ALL of the messages and friends. I think it's more of getting all of the certain type of people together in one place. And I'm talking strictly in a marketing sense.

      Let's say that you had a website on fishing. You start a Facebook account specifically for this. And then you start adding friends who love fishing.

      It gives you the opportunity to develop relationships with those people. At least in the sense thatthey know you (ie. Facebook friends).

      So when you do have a new fishing product or want to further promote your fishing website, you can do so.

      For me, I'm just looking for a way to interact with others who want to make a living online. Share ideas. Share success stories and failures. Share strategies. Etc. Bounce ideas off of.

      I think Facebook can be used in a variety of ways. Not just the traditional way that most people seem to use it.

      Best wishes,

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  • I have around 50. Looking to get a Fanpage for business.
  • i have less than 300 and only accepted friends not Bots
  • I have 3300+ FB Friends. I am added via my motorcycle blog. My id is fb.com/deepakonline
  • A lot of friends I've picked up by interacting with them on the walls of mutual friends. We can comment on the same position, etc, and then I will come and "friend" them. Others have approached me this way too.
  • I have just over 100 Facebook friends, but I only know half of them in real life. I just wasting time on Facebook and never used it as a business environment, but actually being that.
  • I have about 250 on my personal profile and know most of them from school or the Navy and about 150 on my professional profile with a similar breakdown. I also made several new friendships and connections through various groups and communites for internet marketers and entrepreneurs.
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