How many friends have you got on Facebook? Part 1

Does it really matter how many friends I have on Facebook? I realised something was not quite right when I got to the big 100. I felt relaxed now that I had a respectable amount of friends. Then I felt stupid for thinking like that. I also noticed that some people wanted to be my friends, but they didn't really. Could it be that people were using me to get their numbers up? How many is acceptable? 20, 30, 50, 100, 500? Why does it matter? Do we need to be popular? One thing we do is comparison. We pick that person who is quite like us to see how many friends they have or someone we aspire to be like. But what if they have more friends than us?

Maybe one of the problems with Facebook is the use of the word friend. It is being diluted.

Beat the Credit Crunch

It seems someone in Lurgan has worked out how to beat the credit crunch. I saw a sign that said you can do this simply by booking any tanning course and get 50% extra free!
Now, I am not an expert on things economic, but how exactly does this help? Why hasn't Gordon Brown annouced emergency measures to hand out free tanning vouchers to people?
The other things that I can't figure is what the 50% is. Is it 50% darker tan? Does the 50% equate to a small friend or maybe a child?

My advice is don't pay out for tanning sessions. Be happy with the pale white as opposed to the unnatural orange!