Pay particular attention to your "friends" this week.
How many friends do you have? What networks are they in? What networks are you in? How many friends do your friends have? Is your network inherently "better" than theirs? Do your "group" memberships make you feel more a part of something?
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On Facebook 563 friends, 131 of them being from the University of Illinois. I have 118 friends from my high school. The rest of my friends are from other colleges like Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and Southeast Missouri State University. About 300 of my friends are “college friends,” and 285 of my friends are “high school friends.” These numbers aren’t really accurate because if someone is still in their high school’s network, then they are both a high school and a college friend. I am currently in the UIllinois network and I am also still in the Anna-Jonesboro Community High School network. Several of my friends have not joined their college network or they just don’t have a network at all. My roommate has 336 friends which it surprising because she came from a high school that was considerably larger than mine. She always tends to have a lot more online friends than I do. I’m not exactly sure why that is, but I find it interesting. Most of my friends have somewhere around 200 friends but my friend Danny has 650 friends! He goes to a small private college too! I guess it doesn’t really matter where you are geographically, it’s just about how social or non-social you are. I wouldn’t say that my network is any better than anyone else’s network. I could say that my college is better than some other colleges though. My group memberships do make me feel like I’m in a group, to a certain extent. Usually once I join a group and post on the discussion board a couple of times I just tend to forget about the group. Unless the group is really active I don’t feel like I’m really in a “group.”
I never really looked at the number of friends that I have, but as of now the number sits at five hundred and four. Of those, two hundred sixty-six are in the Uillinois network. One hundred ninety are in the Chicago, Illinois network. One hundred and eleven are in my high school network (Glenbrook North), and sixteen are in the Urbana/Champaign, Il network. These are the main networks, but when I expanded the network tab, I realized that there are around a hundred other networks that have at most five people in them (but most of those only had one or two). I’m in the Uillinois and Glenbrook North networks. I hesitate joining any others because I fear making my profile available to more people. Though, that seems rather stupid now that I say it because the Uillinois is accessible by over forty thousand people. I spot checked my friends, and the range of the number of friends appears to be between two hundred and fifty-seven to approximately nine hundred. I think...from what I can recall, my myspace friends had upwards of several thousand friends.
I feel that my network is better than the Chicago, Il network because it is somewhat restricted to students. I think that any college or high school network is better than a general city network because it limits the chances of meeting “creeps.”
I don’t really subscribe to the value or importance of group membership. In fact, at this point, groups are just annoying. My message box is swamped by messages from these groups constantly about events that they are holding. People may or may not be judging me based on my group membership, which is rather daunting because it doesn’t really reflect who I am. Even if they don’t search to discover what groups I’m in, they see it in their mini-feed. In addition, I rarely take the time to read what’s actually posted on the group page. Instead, I just judge the group based on who invited me and the title of the group. Questions instantly arise about whether this is actually a cause they care about (based on what I know about them) and whether or not I was just part of a mass invite.
I currently have 509 friends in various networks including, but not limited to, UIllinois; Chicago, IL; Urbana/Champaign, IL; Ill. Chicago; Amos Alonzo Stagg High School; Illinois State; and DePaul. Most of these networks are colleges, while some are geographical areas/cities. I am only in two networks at this moments: UIllinois and Chicago,IL. I should probably join the Urbana/Champaign, IL network soon.
I doubt any of my friends have the same number of friends as another, so when I checked various profiles I found that most of my friends have a relative quantity similar to others. This range is usually between 300 and 700; however, I did notice that one girl had over 1,000 friends. In my opinion, the amount of “friends” one has is actually much less in reality. Honestly, how many of such “friends” does a person actually communicate with on a weekly, or even monthly, basis? Sure, close friends and relatives have priority, but your acquaintances from class that you never even speak to do not constitute as “friends”. But I guess this just means that I am a hypocrite as I too have such “friends’.
Personally, I do not believe that the networks I am in are any better than anyone else’s or any worse for that matter. Networks mean very little to me, as I never pay attention to them. As for groups, only some of my groups make me feel like I actually “belong” in a “group”. The Allen Hall Class of 2010, Allen Hall Zombie Mob, and other Allen Hall associated groups make me feel like I am an integral part of this dorm.
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