# How Many Online Friends=Friend Whore?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-online-friends-friend-whore/485839>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 14, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-online-friends-friend-whore/485839 "2009-02-14T18:06:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-online-friends-friend-whore/485839/21 "2009-02-17T03:15:21Z")

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> [@msmith537](#):
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> Networking is important, but quality is often more important than quantity. It’s like people on LinkedIn who are in sales and have thousands and thousands of contacts. What’s the point? You don’t know 99% of them. In terms of being an important connection, it’s about as valuable as the phone book.

That’s kind of like an anecdote I heard about a printer and the customers who order business cards: the really successful people ordered theirs in lots of 100, while the struggling small-timers ordered theirs in lots of 5,000. The former group picks and chooses who to best do business with, while the latter basically does face-to-face spamming.

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