Facebook friends are almost entirely fake, study finds

[Monxstaa]

Woah that seriously is crazy lol, personally speaking i hate facebook and don't even talk to most of my "friends" list*they are mostly cancer*.. facebook is cancer tbh but it does have its perks​

You can only count on about four of your friends, and most don’t even care if anything bad happens to you



Most of your Facebook friends don’t care about you and probably wouldn’t even sympathise with your problems, according to a new study.

Many people have hundreds of Facebook friends. But people can only really depend on four of them, on average, according to new research.

Robin Dunbar, a professor of evolutionary psychology at Oxford University, undertook a study to find out the connection between whether people have lots of Facebook friends and real friends.

He found that there was very little correlation between having friends on social networks and actually being able to depend on them, or even talking to them regularly.

The average person studied had around 150 Facebook friends. But only about 14 of them would express sympathy in the event of anything going wrong.

The average person said that only about 27 per cent of their Facebook friends were genuine.Those numbers are mostly similar to how friendships work in real life, the research said. But the huge number of supposed friends on a friend list means that people can be tricked into thinking that they might have more close friends.
Facebook friends tend to organise in different layers, the research claims. About five people will be in the first and closest one, then 15, 50 and 150 different friends will be in each of the groups as they move further out.

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[Marin]

Facebook "friends" are a dumb concept. They're just contacts wich you don't even use 90% time.

If you really have 400+ friends than I take off my hat. u.u

 

[Illuminater]

They are just jealous they don't get friend requests like me.

 

[~Ethereal~]

I have no friends, only lovers.

 

[iNotorious]

I've meet a lot of people in facebook, that is a lie!

 

[Urda]

I've met a lot of people in facebook, that is a lie!

But, they "fake". They ain't trying to be your real friend.

 

[Dark Sonic]

Well then.

 

[iNotorious]

But, they "fake". They ain't trying to be your real friend.

I've talked to them since 2008 and I've meet up with them in real life :bdpf:

 

[YowYan]

Good thing I deleted my facebook account 2 years ago with the 300+ ''friends'' on it.

 

[Urda]

I've talked to them since 2008 and I've meet up with them in real life :bdpf:

Are they your friend till this day?

 

[Troyg39]

It shouldn't have taken a study to see that

Idk maybe the generation born into the internet and social media can't tell. But FB, IG, Twitter, all that stuff is the same when it comes to your friends, followers, etc.

Don't get me wrong though a lot of my FB friends, some I've never even met in person, are pretty dope from a distance. But I wouldn't hit em up on the chat if I were in a bind lol

 

[Dark Sonic]

It shouldn't have taken a study to see that

Idk maybe the generation born into the internet and social media can't tell. But FB, IG, Twitter, all that stuff is the same when it comes to your friends, followers, etc.

Don't get me wrong though a lot of my FB friends, some I've never even met in person, are pretty dope from a distance. But I wouldn't hit em up on the chat if I were in a bind lol

lmfao that's what I'm thinking

 

[Karna]

I wonder how many rl friends are actual friends, fb though, is just a speakerphone for hypocrisy(mostly).

Also
>"Study finds"..
Like you actually need a 'study' to figure that out.

 

[demon of the leaf]

Face book and twitter is nothing but trash i was on the cusp of deleting mine

 

[iNotorious]

Are they your friend till this day?

Yeah, though I only use fb most of the times to browse a group of a game that I play on my smartphone. I have them on my whatsapp.

 

[MCXI]

I would have thought this was obvious tbh.

 

[Urda]

Yeah, though I only use fb most of the times to browse a group of a game that I play on my smartphone. I have them on my whatsapp.

All like 100+ of them?

 

[Yatori]

FB only connect me and my friends when they sending wedding invitation through FB. Aint nobody giving wedding card anymore lol. Also news travel faster on FB so it keep me up tp dated.

 

[Reraru]

Who doesn't know that tho?

 

[Yubel]

Yeah, there are mother****as who'll go around liking pictures but won't even say hi to you in real life.
It doesn't matter though, Facebook is only entertainment for me and a place to keep an album.