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Hawaii_Jake's avatar

Why do people look for followers on various websites that allow users to add personal information?

Asked by Hawaii_Jake (37350points) September 24th, 2011

I have a blog that I use only for sharing very personal information, so only a very few friends know about it. It gets a few odd hits from someone searching Google. Very few. I personally don’t care about the number of hits it gets.

I also don’t care how many people are my friends on Facebook.

Why do some people look for as many followers as they can get?

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FutureMemory's avatar

Loneliness.

Boredom.

Under the false impression they have something important to share with the world at large.

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jrpowell's avatar

I assume they are in high school and it is some sort of contest. When I was in high school we measured our value with notches on the headboard.

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downtide's avatar

Because these social sites made the mistake of referring to contacts as “friends”.

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wundayatta's avatar

My guess is that they hope, one day, to either earn money or gain fame from being themselves.

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