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muppetman on Jan 7, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook could reboot and we'd mess it up again

Isn't this obvious? This is the human ego at play. We all like to imagine we have a lot of friends. To feel important. So we add lots of people, bigger numbers, more people, more contacts etc. It's just human nature, isn't it?

mushishi on Jan 7, 2012 | [–]

I don't care if I have a lot of friends. I actually have actively prevented forming potential friendships. I think you are overgeneralizing.

hunterwalk on Jan 7, 2012 | [–]

exactly! my point is these are human factors we need to design around.

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