From just over 100 friends last year, my list of Facebook friends has now reached over 1000. It is amazing to know how everyone seems to own a Facebook account these days. Met someone in a bar? Ask for his/her FB account and you’d be on your way to knowing him or her more. Add all your friends from church. Find your long-lost high school friends and add them in. In a matter of days, you will have a number of followers who will sneak into your every wall post.

When you add someone you have not seen for many years, what do you usually do afterward – say, few seconds after adding?

1. Do you check the profile to see if she or he is already married? (if both of you are still single at an age perfect for tying the knot, who knows, something might spark between you two)

2. Do you look at the photos to see how the person have changed over the years? (Oh, she has become horizontally-challenged! What happened to the curves?!)

3. Do you check the person’s present residence? (others may have moved out of the country or maybe even traveled in space)

4. Do you check the person’s accomplishments from those years you have lost touch? (most often people change career paths – from engineering to nursing, from medical field to theater)

5. Do you open the person’s list of friends to see who are in there that you might have known too and not on your list yet? (friends find friends from friends, you know)

6. Do you leave the person a message on the wall with a note “how happy I am to find you here”? (I usually do this for very close friends)

What about if you will add someone you’ve just met or known? Do you check and read the full profile of the person? Or do you ever bother?

I have encountered so many instances when friends ask me questions that are already in my profile. Most of the time, I don’t care when friends inquire stuff that I already laid out for them and for the public to read. But there are just times that I wish they could have taken a quick peek first.

I made quite a number of friends in Facebook and the list will continue to grow for sure. It might double next year or maybe even triple in number. I will be happy whatever the number is. The more friends is on my list, the merrier will my FB wall become.