Add more friends or develope the relationship of the friends we already have?

What is the balance we should have between adding friends and developing the relationship?

I am trying to stick to a rule of only adding friends thru a mutual friend, and only if we have a strong relationship that friend. If we want to use a mutual friend to add a new friend - they should know us by name. Conversely, we should be faily aquainted with them, their websites, blogs, videos, etc as if we are family members or co-workers, or friends from the gym, etc

I had a friend that I had not built up a relationship yet and recieved an email to join her business opportunity. I'm thinking, who is this person? I did have the person as a friend, so I looked at her info (profile), This person did not contribute to too many walls and her profile is mostly about her great opportunity. I dropped her from my friends list. Maybe if we had an aquaintance list, she could have stayed there. I guess "friends" means too much too me to just have anyone.

Another example was a friends request by someone who (at least) put in a message - that much I liked, but the message was all about his great opportunity. We didn't even have any mutual friends!! rejected!

I think I will go slowly on the adding friends part and work harder at building a relationship with the friends I have. I believe I need to "earn" the right to make friends with their friends.


I've been spending time on youtube learning from others. I am thinking of creating a blog +/or website devoted to the people I am learning from - maybe not their sales pages, but rather, their videos. This will let others see the path I am on in my learning as well as "edify" (I think Eric Green invented that word - just kidding Eric) those that have given me soo much.

Here's another benefit to me - I can create traffic, more content ideas, search engine ranking, and find ways to use and someday own or at least rank high for certain keywords.