Comment "friends" data should be called "random people" (Score 1) 216
This data can never really show anything meaningful. Some (many ?) people add every-one they have had more than a days interaction with. I know people with 1000s of "friends", and they don't really know why they are "friends" with many of these people.
I know some-one who created a completely fictitious "character" who now has over 500 friends, and the "character" gets about 20 friend request a week. There is obviously no limit to how shallow some facebook users are....
At least once a year one should have to confirm ones friends, having to click 1000s of confirm buttons down an endless list would clean things up a bit.