I saw this at Grab's message board - everyone add my brother - he just started and needs more friends. Needs more friends for what?!?
First of all I don't add anyone unless they make the request themselves!!!
Secondly I send request to people who have some information about themselves (interests, hobbies) or nice pictures of their pets or other things. But I never send requests to those who have hardly anything in their profiles to tell about them expect their games stats (there are others who don't have games stats).
I'm looking for friends who like to play games and do not simply want to pad their friend's list. No reason to have a list of strangers as "friends". Even at Grab there are a lot of folks measure success by quantity, the higher the numbers, the lower the quality of the relationship tend to be.
We all know that it's not realistic to have one person try to engage in any sort of meaningful way with 1,500 of their closest "friends".

So many people are addicted to online networking. I will never join up for a network such as Facebook, Bebo, MySpace, Twitter.....
At first I tought I was old fashioned about it. But the more time you spend staring at the screen, the more uncomfortable it made you feel. It had become like an obsession - teenagers throw themselves into a friendship, or network of friendship, then it collapses and they're desolate.
It's all-or-nothing syndrome that you have in an attempt to shore up an identity, a collection of friends about whom you can talk or even boast. But friendship is not a commodity, friendship is hard work and enduring when it is right. We are losing social skills, the human interaction skills. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is very, very important part of community life and living together. The use of social networking is rife among scoolchildren: almost half of 8 to 17-year-olds now have an onlile profile!!!
Virtual friendships are no substitute for those forged in person. Children don't develop the social skills and emotional resilience they need to cope with. Despite the ready availablity of tens of thousands of cyber-friends, among young people loneliness remains a major problem.
It's not uncommon for members to list more than 500 "friends". Clearly, no more than a handful of these are true friends. It's much easier to build a relationship with someone over the internet, these speedily-formed friendships are not firmly rooted in reality, it requires little cognitive effort.
The reality is that the popularity such sites confer is a mirage. One of the results of the social networking phenomenon is that quantity has replaced quality as the marker of friendship.
It's a shallow world in these sites. No thank you.