Ha Ha Ha…. I was just reading that Scoble is insecure, researchers say according to a post on his blog Scobleizer.
"..Heheh, here’s proof that I’m insecure. At least it’s true if you look at a Guardian article that says that research is showing that people with more than 800 Facebook friends are seen as insecure. I guess having 4,999 friends makes one really, really insecure! Shhhh, don’t tell the Guardian that I have 1,148 friends waiting to get in (Facebook doesn’t let you have more than 4,999 friends)."
Facebook is limiting our insecurity by telling us we can only have 5000 friends …
"..S. Shyam Sundar, a professor and founder of the Media Effects Research Laboratory at Penn State, has led students in several Facebook studies exploring identity. One involved the creation of mock Facebook profiles. Researchers learned that while people perceive someone who has a high number of friends as popular, attractive and self-confident, people who accumulate "too many" friends (about 800 or more) are seen as insecure."
Interestingly enough, I've just read, on Jeff Pulber's Facebook page, that a new feature for "Invisibility" could be the next "killer app" (that way you don't have to be insecure worrying about being preceived as being insecure):
"…Yossi Vardi recently commented he would join Facebook if he had the ability to be invisible. And after thinking about this, I realized that invisibility is a killer feature that could bring another wave of people into Facebook and could also help protect our kids against predators on social networks.
The way I imagine invisibility might work would be if I choose to be invisible, I would show up on my friends friend list when a friend looked at their friends list, but when a friend of a friend looked at the same friends list, my name would not appear. Invisibility is something that could help some people deal with the social awkwardness created by social networks.
It would be great to be able to optionally apply invisibility both globally and locally so that if I choose, I could identify specific friends whose lists I want to appear to be invisible and still appear on the friend lists of others."
