To ask how many friends and following you have on social media

[Socialmediafan]

I’ve noticed the older people are the tend to have less. I have over 1000 on instagram and 800 Facebook friends

Facebook 159 / Insta 69 (I’m 51) I only have family and friends- people I interact with reasonably regularly (I only have colleagues if I socialise with them too, not just regular colleagues).

Young people have a tendency to 'friend' any random they have chatted to for 5 minutes on SM. Us older folk are fussier.

None. I don't have social media neither do any of my family

Let me just count them……0! (Not counting LinkedIn)

Don't engage with it.

1100+ on Instagram where I only post my old lady hobby.
Its a very lovely community where we all cheer each other on as our RL families are sick of us asking how our WIP looks. 😆

I am highly suspicious of someone with upwards of 800 "friends" because they can't possibly know them all.

I use Facebook as a resource to find out about local events and sell stuff. I use Facebook. It doesn't use me. My privacy settings are high and I never post pictures of my food, myself, or other people without their permission.

@Socialmediafan I expect the older people (like me) have fewer friends because they are only friends with people they actually know and want to be friends with.

500+ on FB. I've been to a lot of parties and I have a wide group of friends so it stacks up.

1000+ on Insta. That's where I post my art.

Why do you WANT 800 FB friends?!

You can't possibly read everything they say, and your actual friends get lost in that mess.

My rule is I only have people on FB who 1) don't live locally, 2) not family and 3) I'd love to go out for a drink with them tomorrow

Otherwise it's just fucking pointless drivel and noise.

I don't post often because I'm not vain enough to think I'm that bloody interesting all the time to other people but when I do post, I get replies from my actual friends not random strangers.

As for insta... If you are all about measuring your worth based on the number of your followers, then I really rather feel sorry for you.

Sorry but social media for attention rather than friends just doesn't interest me.

Don't get me wrong I've met hundreds of people from online communities in the past, but that's the point for me. Social media is about a gateway to real life interaction rather than it being my only social interaction. If you have that many followers and put that much stock on social media you are missing out on real life.

Less than 100 on FB and a handful on Instagram. Mainly due to professional reasons, both supa private.
Facebook is great for family news and communication. But really don’t see the need to accept all and sundry into my life.
I do belong to two specific support groups which have been a godsend.

Mid thirties. Only have Instagram which is set to private. I have 6 posts. I post a picture maybe once a year. I have about 35 followers. People I have actually met and have a relationship with.

Unless it’s their job, regular people with thousands of followers would make me assume that they are an attention seeker that gets validation from social media.

People do not know and have genuine relationships with thousands upon thousands of people.

While visiting my friend for a weekend two years ago I met her flatmate and we spent a bit of time together - she joined us for dinner one night and she was kind enough to drive me to the airport for my flight home. Later she added me as a friend on Facebook, I was surprised as I hardly knew her but accepted the friend request anyway since she had been very nice to me during my visit. Kept up with her life on Facebook as you do, saw her get married and have a child.

Fast forward to last weekend when I met her again at our friends wedding, I went over to say hello with a big smile and she clearly had no clue who I was. I checked her Facebook later and saw she had over 3000 friends. I really don't understand the mentality of adding everyone you meet when you have no interest in them whatsoever. I deleted her because really what's the point in seeing her posts.

Anyway, to answer your question I think I have 350-450 friends on Facebook and less than 200 on Instagram. All people who I know well or that I knew well once.

Not sure I even know what Instagram is? Is that where people just post photos?

150ish on Facebook, cut it down alot over the years especially since having kids and wanting more privacy, as I post alot on there so they are seeing an (almost) diary of my life.Only used to have 300/400is max though even when I was young/single/more of a social butterfly.
Crazy when people have 1000 or something, clearly just a popularity contest for numbers and probably barely know alot of them, although there are those very outgoing and socially confident people who seem to know and talk to EVERYONE!

No idea

I'm old. I dont know or care how many followers I have on FB because I lost interest long ago and barely check it. I prefer to interact in special interest groups on there as the conversations relate to more serious/ interesting subjects. I don't like the superficial stuff most people post. I only ever post holiday pix or major events. I am quite a private person and prefer to talk to my good friends and family in person or privately about the issues that matter. Can't be bothered with Insta because it's more of the same.

I used to have 100k on Instagram (this was a long time ago too!) ... I deleted them all though as back then my university saw it as controversial to have a public social media!!!

Things have definitely changed in the last decade 😭

Exactly this. I have 75 friends on facebook, (some are family,) and 79 followers on instagram. They are pretty much all people I know in real life on Instagram, and I know ALL of my facebook friends in real life. I am nearly 50.

I know a few 20-somethings/early 30-somethings who have 1000-1500 facebook 'friends' and 900-1200 instagram followers. (A few have double that!)

It was my birthday the other week. I got birthday greetings from 53 of my 75 facebook friends. The people I know with 1000-1500 followers get 50 to 60 birthday greeting posts... Roughly the same as me - even though I only have about 5% of the 'friends' they have. I often get around 45-50 'likes' on each picture. The ones with 1000 to 1500 'friends' get around 3 or 4 dozen 'likes.' Again, a similar amount to me. Around 2% of their 'friends' and followers are acknowledging them on a regular basis. Around 65-70% of mine are acknowledging me on a regular basis.

Are you getting the picture yet @Socialmediafan ??? Most of the multiple 100s, sometimes 1000s of 'friends' that 'younger' people have are not real friends, and they don't care about the person they're following. Indeed most of them don't even KNOW the person they are following!

I even had a woman in my area send me a friend request last week, and I have never even met her, let alone spoken to her. (She is 33.) Some people add/try to add loads of people because they think having a big 'friend count' makes them look terribly popular. I suspect she saw me as a suggested friend - as we are in the same community group for the area we live in - and decided to try and add me. I declined.

I suppose you will tell us now, that you get 3000 likes on every post, 1000s of birthday greetings, and 90% of your followers and 'friends' interact with you every day! If that is true, then you must be a celebrity, because everyone I know who has 1000-1500+ followers has interactions and 'likes' from less than 5% of these people. I am pretty sure some people - actually buy some followers, because they have so little interaction with most of them. Basically, they do not know all the people on their 'friends' list.

It started as a way to post photos but it's going mostly into short videos now.

You can have a private or a public account. If you have a public account, you most likely either don't care who sees what you post, or you use your account for some other purpose - a band will have an Insta page, many other artists will (me included), some people like to give information on specialist subjects, some people will post all about cycling, for example, and other people who like cycling will follow them to vicariously enjoy it.

It's not expected that you would know every single one of your followers/the people you follow.

I'm in my 50s.

Twitter: 9k followers on one personal account and 1.6k on the other.
I'm admin for 2 other Twitter accounts: 700 on one and 1.3k on the other.

FB: used to only use it for groups and only had 3 close family members on it.
Decided to use it like Twitter and start accepting Friend requests. Now have 500 friends.
Only know a couple of dozen in RL. Others have shared interests and post things that interest me.

Instagram. About 50 followers and following. I only really use it to see what dd is posting.

TikTok. Rarely use. Single figures followers and following.

I don't use Facebook. I have an Instagram account for actual friends and family to follow so I have 78 followers (which I still feel is too many, they can't possibly all be actual friends or family! I must look through that list!)

I still have FB but only for keeping up with local info (eg local news pages) and for keeping in contact with selected family members who live further away. I'd delete it otherwise too. I also have my instagram private, follow a few musicians, actors, artists, photographers who interest me, and have less than 200 followers.

20 on insta and about 70 on fb. Under 40age.
I just have people are actually know and like on it. Family and friends and not even all of them. No one from work etc. All locked on private.
I have like hundred follow requests though and even more on facebook🙄 like why would I friend someone I haven't spoken to since high school. They are just wanting to snoop.

I use SM mainly to keep in touch with family and friends back in native country. And follow pretty things like national trust and gardeners

I’m early 50s and have about 300 FB friends. Prob need to do a cull really..
bsrely any in Instagram but I only use it to look at celeb crap & my DD’s creative account!!!

I'm 45, have 32 on fb never use it anymore. They are all close family.

I have insta but no followers I just follow random things.

Ddog has 2k on his insta.