Friend Math

Facebook Friend Math: according to FB Timeline, I added 219 friends in 2011, 142 friends in 2010, and 330 friends in 2009, the year I first joined FB on May 2.

That adds up to 691 or the number of friends I had at the end of 2011, but along the way there was the great Facebook pseudonym purge of May 2011 where I lost 129 friends overnight, preceded by the lesser Facebook pseudonym purge of January 2010.

http://vaneeesa.com/2011/05/28/equal-protection/

And since the May ‘11 purge I’ve “voluntarily” deleted over 100 “friends.” So the “real” number of friends I’ve added in the last 3 years is more like 1,000, but I guess in the selective memory of Facebook, anyone who isn’t your current (and Facebook approved) friend, never existed.

Hahaha, take that Google+! And You thought YOU owned the nymwars! Wake up G+! Meet your big bro!