Virtually friends

I've got 24. My little sister, Jane, has got 53. My Arkansan nephew, Ben, has got 529. DVDs? Overdue library books? Zits? No, of course not, I'm talking about friends on Facebook. I am hard pressed to think of more than a handful of people that I would truly call friends, yet even I have 24 of 'em on the online social network, as it's called (or a waste of time, as my wife calls it). I would have had 25, but one cancelled his Facebook account because he was sick of people he barely knew knowing everything about him. So unlike blogging, ahem.