# facebook etiquette - no, I don't want to help you bump up your friends total, thanks!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 7, 2009, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-etiquette-no-i-dont-want-to-help-you-bump-up-your-friends-total-thanks/505608 "2009-08-07T07:12:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2009, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-etiquette-no-i-dont-want-to-help-you-bump-up-your-friends-total-thanks/505608/21 "2009-08-07T22:15:44Z")

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**winterhawk11** , you can also take quizzes without posting your results. Every quiz I’ve taken has had publishing results as a separate, optional step.

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-etiquette-no-i-dont-want-to-help-you-bump-up-your-friends-total-thanks/505608/22 "2009-08-08T02:41:24Z")

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You can also change your settings so you don’t get bombarded with advertisements that use your friend’s names. E.g, “Bob score 134 in an IQ test, click here to beat Bob’s score” when Bob didn’t even take an IQ test and his name has just been trawled from your friends list.

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**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-etiquette-no-i-dont-want-to-help-you-bump-up-your-friends-total-thanks/505608/23 "2009-08-08T02:47:29Z")

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> [@VunderBob](#):
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> Hell, I don’t want 4 and 5 digit amounts of friends; I can hardly keep up with my news feed as it is with a count in the 80s. And I’m considering thinning the herd as it stands right now anyway.
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> My list consists of people I know and value.

I do this every few months. My upper limit is somewhere around 40. If I don’t interact with somebody at least once in a while, in some way or another, then I really don’t need to have them as a friend on FB.

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**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-etiquette-no-i-dont-want-to-help-you-bump-up-your-friends-total-thanks/505608/24 "2009-08-08T02:54:06Z")

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> [@FairyChatMom](#):
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> Apart from the rampant silliness, I got sick of the few friends who used it as their political, religious, and social soapbox. When it got to be too aggravating, I quit.

Wow. You should have deleted them, not yourself.

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