Why do you want to know how many Facebook friends I have?

I use to have hundreds of friends on face book. Quite honestly I barely knew 20 of them.
In my mind I had to have alot of facebook friends, I guess it made me seem popular or some what accomplished.
I'm sure you guys go through the same thing or have that one friend who constantly brags about the amount of friends they have on facebook. This is quite annoying (I'm not the bragging type).
My first encounter with a bragging facebooker was last year, this person just went on and on about their 4000 friends, suprisingly my narrow minded classmates were impressed.
I'm not the violent type but I really wanted to hurt that kid.
I got tired of people asking how much friends you have? is that even important.
If your my friend why would you care about about the number of friends I have? wouldn't you just want to communicate with me or see what's going on in my life.
Chances are these people with 4000 friends don't really know 4000 people. Of course when you point this out they will go out of their way to say that they do. Don't let it bother you, some human beings just have a need for attention,  try to ignore them. remember this while their sitting at their computers just waiting endlesly for their next friend request or for their request to be accepted you'll be living your life
like a normal person.