Are you hooked on facebook and how many friends do you have on facebook?

For me, yes, I admit that I am very hooked and addicted to that site. Haha. My friends and I, we all stalk each other everyday on facebook, despite the fact that we see each other at school already. It's all Mark Zuckerberg's fault for inventing that thing. Everyone is super nosey and curious about everyone else's life (myself included). I guess it's only human nature. LOL. Anyway, I only add people that I know in real life and that I go/went to school with. Currently, I have only 310 friends. And of the 310, 38% are from my undergrad school (people I went college with, from my college network), 42% are from my graduate school (people that I currently go to grad school with or who went to grad school with me, all from my grad school network), the other 13% are friends of mine from grade school on up who attend different schools from me (but, whom I've all known since my childhood + high school days), and lastly, about 7% are my students that I T.A. That's about it. I'm in three networks (two of them are my school networks) on facebook : UCSD, Harvard, and Boston, MA.

One thing I hate about facebook is that poke thing. I always get like about 8-10 pokes a day from my friends and it's like, okay, am I suppose to poke them back each time or what? I don't always have time to send them a poke back. Or, is it considered rude if you don't poke your friends, if they send you a poke? Haha. I try to send them a poke back when I can because I figured it's a facebook etiquette you know? Kinda like if they write on your wallie, it's only polite to write them back on their wallie, right? But sometimes, I admit that I get freakin' lazy. It gets annoying to get pokes everyday. I wish I can take that poke feature off from my facebook page. Huy.

Actually, some of my professors are on facebook along with 99.9% of my fellow doctoral classmates and not to mention, all my friends at school are on facebook too (so it's kinda hard not to join when everyone you know and go to school with are on there, ya know?), and you wonder where we find time for such things right? Well, there are 24 hours in a day and if we have time to eat, sleep, sing, study, dance and poop, we can def spare 5 minutes a day for facebook. At least, that's how much time on avg I spend there (give or take). I usually only sign on whenever I get a message from my email telling me that a friend sent me something, wrote on my wallie, poke me, invited me to some event, etc. Oh and I also go on frequently to post up class notes for my students and of course, to update my profile with new pictures so that my friends and relatives who are far away can know how I'm doing, what I'm up to, and lastly, what I look like now. That's pretty much it.

Oh I didn't mean to ask you for justifications.  It was purely a compliment.   The fact that we all know you're one busy person with your Acedemics involvement and to be able to maintain close relationship with friends and relatives...that is awesome!  Let me give you a real life example, I know of one person who vanished from the face of the earth when she started her academic year.  She would turn down every time a bunch of us friends arranged a get together.  The worst part of all she did not even attend one of our friends' dad funeral.  So at the end she lost all of her friends.  She had her many chances and eveyone basically gave up on her friendship.  I think I'm the only friend she has left.