Friends on Facebook

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Do you think someone can have a lot of friends on Facebook and still be on the Autism Spectrum?

I only add real friends. The list is called "friends" and not "random acquaintances" for a reason.

The Facebook definition of "friend" is rather broad.

Yes I have 78 friends on facebook!! ! Most of them are people who I went to classes with growing up!!

Yes, definitely.

Clicking "add to friends" doesn't require a lot of social skills.

I have a ton of "friends" on Myspace.

"Genuine" friends?

It's unlikely.

But then, I don't see many "NTs" with "genuine" friends either.

Dunno about facebook (I'm not a member), but on myspace I had over 200 "friends"... and never talked to any of them.

I have 4 friends. I use it very rarely and I have met every one of them and consider them true friends.

I recently created a myspace page just so I could contact a band, don't want friends there.

I create very private/nondescript profiles usually.

I find social networking really complicated. It is one of the more advanced social 'skills'. I got friends from one on one interactions. It is better if they don’t know each other initially.

I only add friends i meet in school and some relatives on myspace and facebook

I do and I keep in touch with many of them a lot (not all but unless they really do something bad, I have no reason to delete them)

am cant see it being any different for someone with an ASD if they want loads of users on their list,theres the possible collecting side to it-collecting as many different users as possible,without having any connection with them, instead of being about actual humans,like pokemon in a way.

am recently joined face book after being persuaded by home staff as all the staff who used to work with am and had liked a lot are on there,they all want to talk to am on the little chat thing but they are having to ask service manager first if its ok to do so,am have no interest in using it for anything else but connecting with the nice residential or NAS staff who are all on there,so have no users in list yet.


anna-banana,
is a lot easier to get that type of details on internet than think,even easier than through facebook.
am recently found a uk website that will give the home address,who a person lives with,their age and also a close up photo of their house from above [though not everyones has all the details] the site gets all the details off a roll type thing that people go on to allow them to vote.
Showed some staff it after putting their names in and they couldnt believe it was available just by putting in their name.