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Sounds like all your friends and thier friends, are a friendly bunch.

pythonlover

Are you suffering from a social phobia ?You seem very overwhelmed with "people,strangers,friends".Your best off keeping to your self.A Pythons bite is not fatal,however they can crush you to death.

Sounds like " references " to me. Friends of a friend.

naoo: Welcome to the joy of social networking. Outside of social networking, you usually only get that many friends when you hit a mega-large Powerball (talk about finding out about family and friends you never knew you had!). And without putting constraints on "your" wall page, blog page, whatever page, it ripples outward where friends-of-friends-of-friends-of-friends-ad-nauseum are a collective group of nebulous pseudo-friends or phantom-friends. It is however, a cool way to explore six-steps-of-separation (you've played that Kevin Bacon game, right?) or small-world theory. Other than that, it's a good way for places like Facebook and other social media sites to bloat some numbers to advertisers. (Yes, Virginia, there really is an ulterior financial motive.) In socio-status terms, I suppose you get "bragging" rights for numbers of friends (hello, did we lose the whole "quality vs. quantity" premise along the way?). A parting thought, perhaps ... doesn't the whole thumbs-up-thumbs-down thing smack a bit of the Roman Coliseum? Gladiatorial combat anyone? Me, I'm just content with vending peanuts from the gallery and commenting on the glorious folly of it all. And sorry, friends don't get free peanuts.

their are no strangers.. just friends we haven't met yet...

what an interesting point.