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Among adult Facebook users, the average (mean) number of friends is 338, and the median (midpoint) number of friends is 200. In other words, half of all Facebook users have more than 200 friends, and half have less than 200. Younger users tend to have significantly larger friend networks than older users: 27% of 18-29 year old Facebook users have more than 500 friends in their network, while 72% of users age 65+ have 100 friends or fewer.
It is also, roughly, the average number of friends people have on Facebook. Facebook tries to force you to befriend people, because they're the friend of a friend of a friend, and people generously do up to a point, or at least until they get fed up, Dunbar says.