Hypothetical... Help me out if you can :)

I thought as this is a web community, you would be ideal in answering this question.

As some of you might have already read, I am doing a piece on the friends we add to social network sites. I want to ask everyone here to answer a hypothetical question.

You are looking at your account on myspace/facebook/bebo/twitter/any social network site of your choice.

You have 200 "friends".

Let's say 40 of them are people you know in real life. Family and loved ones, friends, work collegues, etc.

Another 30 you talk to online a lot through forums like this and MSN.

Let's throw into that 15 people you at least email once a month.

That leaves 115 "friends" you never speak to or have spoken to since they were added.

Can you delete them all straight away, yes or no? Please give a reason why, it would help me a lot.

Yes - if I haven't got in touch with them for a while then I have no reason to now! Don't need that many friends anyway, about 3 does me.

Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ June 12 2009, 3:51 PM BST

Can you delete them all straight away, yes or no? Please give a reason why, it would help me a lot.

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I regularly do a facebook friend cull of people I don't speak to or have no interest in speaking to again.

Some people are ones I met whilst travelling and although haven't spoken to much, would be helpful knowing people in different countries for future use.

Myspace, I don't really care that much who is my friend on there... however I have just made the profile private so only friends can read it.

I've only ever deleted one person, a work colleague I hardly even talk to at work. I have had people I knew from school request me that I've rejected though. People that I never really thought liked me then, so why add me now. I did umm and ah for about a month though before deciding.

Quote: Nil Putters @ June 12 2009, 4:01 PM BST

I've only ever deleted one person, a work colleague I hardly even talk to at work. I have had people I knew from school request me that I've rejected though. People that I never really thought liked me then, so why add me now. I did umm and ah for about a month though before deciding.

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So you have never added someone you hardly know?

Because I don't live in the city I grew up in there are a lot of people I have on Facebook that I only see a few times a year or less.
On the other hand I have also deleted a lot of people over this past year.
When I got Facebook I originally thought "oh this is a great way to find out what some of my old friends are up to" or "I don't want to be rude by not accepting them". Since then I have deleted a lot of the ones I am pretty sure I won't hang out with when I do visit home. I also deleted a lot of people I used to have classes with in Uni.
Hope that helps.

I'm one of the few people left on Earth that doesn't belong to any kind of social networking site.

I have seen other peoples' though and I'm always impressed that Steve Jenkins, a 22 year old pipe fitter from Stevenage has Pamela Anderson, Wayne Rooney and U2 as friends. He must really know his pipes.

Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ June 12 2009, 4:05 PM BST

So you have never added someone you hardly know?

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Only people from here. At first anyway. My sister (who occasionally logs in as me) has added a few of her friends to my account for Yoville reasons, but I'm not bothered, and wouldn't speak to them.

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ June 12 2009, 5:07 PM BST

I'm one of the few people left on Earth that doesn't belong to any kind of social networking site.

I have seen other peoples' though and I'm always impressed that Steve Jenkins, a 22 year old pipe fitter from Stevenage has Pamela Anderson, Wayne Rooney and U2 as friends. He must really know his pipes.

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I am actually looking into the whole adding celebrities thing.... should be interesting to see how that pans out....

I can't generally be bothered, but standups who keep publishing their own unfunny gags risk the boot.

They should be buying my unfunny gags.

The majority of my friends are from another social website. Someone discovered me and then about 50 others jumped on board.

This morning the ex-wife of one of my Army buddies added me as a friend. Twenty years ago the entire neighborhood was certain we were having an affair. We weren't, but now that we're both single ...

I think it's okay to delete as it looks as if they requested to be friends just to add to their count.

Most of my facebook friends I have met, the rest I have had email contact with and/or know exist.

I'm happy to keep all my friends. They are all people I have met or people I know through others, have chatted to, am interested in their work or have shared interests with.

Put it this way-

In my phonebook I have:

My mum
girlfriend/lodger
best mate 1
best mate 2
pizza hut
taxi

and obviously...the local brothel ( joke)

no, it's out of the city, for obvious reasons.

I delete people quite often. I have no need of 'collecting' nobodies.