tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872413780410252780.post3737835035574938746..comments2023-07-19T10:17:22.859-04:00Comments on Mommymade: creative sanity in an insane life.: What's in a friend?Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11447949592701882774noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872413780410252780.post-85139571130625078472010-06-07T18:05:12.340-04:002010-06-07T18:05:12.340-04:00@ Millie: I'm glad I'm not the only person...@ Millie: I'm glad I'm not the only person with so (comparatively) few people on my friends list, lol! For me it's always mind-blowing that people would have 100's of friends on their list but 1500 - WOW! As Teri points out in her comment, maybe it's a popularity contest.<br /><br />@Teri: I find the way that people interact online so fascinating. I have an aunt who refuses to have a computer in her house, does not have email and never wants to. She says that she just can't have a relationship with someone without speaking to them at least on the phone. She's quite the anomaly in my family, since the rest of the relatives all seem to at least have email. And of course my brother is at the other end of the spectrum, as I mentioned. I think for me it's difficult for me to get to know people so I have fewer friends but the ones I have know me really well. That and I move a lot so it's always difficult to stay in contact with people that you aren't terribly close with.Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11447949592701882774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872413780410252780.post-59413476071718023642010-06-07T15:49:34.999-04:002010-06-07T15:49:34.999-04:00facebook is different things for different people....facebook is different things for different people. for some, like you, it is for people you are close to. for others, it is for people they know. within facebook, you can separate friends lists... some posts go out to everyone, others only go to those on the VIP list. <br /><br />me? i am somewhere in between. some of my sewing friends, i have never actually met in person, but have emailed with them for years. i keep in closer contact with some of them than i do family members because we have more in common. i actually have very few family members on my friends list because we stay in contact in other ways. <br /><br />for some people, it is a popularity contest. they love having more friends than their friends. (shrug)mermaidshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02191626105987019163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872413780410252780.post-79812181554598701812010-06-05T03:20:20.841-04:002010-06-05T03:20:20.841-04:00Wow...what a question! I also have around 40 frien...Wow...what a question! I also have around 40 friends. <br />About 5 or 6 are family. <br />Some a are parents from my kids school, who I would chat to if I met them...I probably would have their phone numbers too. <br />Some of my friends are companies/blogs.<br />Nearly all the rest are secondary/high school classmates. I went to two secondary schools, the first was a boarding school, and it is great to see what they are all doing. I am not friends with anyone from the second school...not that they weren't friends at the time, just not the same connection as the classmates from my first school. <br />I don't collect friends like you say some people do, my mother does, btw! <br />I suppose I only see my facebook friends as people I would like to stay in touch with, rather than people I really call friends, in the true sense...although some are real friends.<br />I found one of my cousins in America on FB..she has 1500 friends! She can't know them all!..can she?<br />I am also friends with a fellow Ottobre sewist...if we are online at the same time we might chat...I have never met or actually spoken to her, but it is nicer than exchanging emails.Milliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08345822230344288078noreply@blogger.com