Our five year old, Katie, accidentally did a social experiment on Facebook.
She loves Facebook and Farmtown. She knows how to log in and plant seeds and harvest crops and buy and sell things in Farmtown.
This morning my wife logged in to Facebook and discovered she had over a hundred new friends. Katie had apparently run through some Farmtown list and started doing friend requests to a couple hundred people.
What’s amazing is that most of them accepted the friend request even though they don’t know the person on the other end of the request.
I admit I accept all friend requests, too. I always figure they’re a friend of a friend or they read my blog, which links to my Facebook page.
One conclusion: if someone believes a Facebook friend count is the measure of their self-worth all they have to do is send friend requests to a bunch of strangers.
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